Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety

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Jennifer A. Kokai Tom Robson

Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity

Tourism, Performance, Anxiety

Jennifer A. Kokai, Tom Robson

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English

Lexington Books
22 August 2024

Popular culture; Social & cultural anthropology; Tourism industry; Hospitality industry

Series: Studies in Disney and Culture

Writing in a time of heightened political anxiety–and when accusations of nationalism, authoritarianism, and proto-fascism have increasingly divided Americans into factions– the authors use their influential performance studies-based ‘tourist as actor’ framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performance of implicit Americanness in the 21st century. This book argues that the roles that guests choose to perform-- accepting, declining, negotiating, or overwriting scripts offered to them by the Disney theme park experience-- ultimately reveals much about the nature of the contemporary United States. Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World in Florida, and using case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics, these chapters illuminate the always complicated and often contradictory presentations and performances of America within Disney parks in the deeply contested twenty-first century.

By: Jennifer A. Kokai, Tom Robson
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 585g
ISBN: 9781666932393
ISBN 10: 1666932396
Series: Studies in Disney and Culture
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 22 August 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jennifer A. Kokai is director of the School of Theatre and Dance and the Endowed Chair of the Holloway and the Brit at the University of South Florida. Tom Robson is assistant teaching professor in Purdue University’s Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program.

Reviews for Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety

Parks and the Construction of American Identity is an ambitious and impactful read I would recommend to any serious theatremaker or thoughtful Disneyphile. * Theatre Topics * Jennifer A. Kokai and Tom Robson’s Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety is a must-read for anyone interested in the serious study of Disney’s theme parks. Astutely weaving together moments of lived personal experience with a range of academic approaches and concepts, the book offers a timely and essential analysis of the ongoing political, social and cultural tensions being played out within the spaces of Walt Disney World. -- Rebecca Williams, University of South Wales Jennifer Kokai and Tom Robson once again provide seminal work on Disney theme parks, providing an in-depth study on what they mean to its audiences, and to US society at large. It is without a doubt the book on the parks we need right now, and will provide fertile ground for scholarship for decades to come. -- Sabrina Mittermeier, University of Kassel, author of ""A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks""