Performance and the Disney theme park experience : the tourist as actor

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This collection of essays explores the Disney theme parks as performance spaces--as immersive theatre spaces--and examines the agency of the tourist within those spaces. In contrast to much previou...

This collection of essays explores the Disney theme parks as performance spaces--as immersive theatre spaces--and examines the agency of the tourist within those spaces. In contrast to much previous Disney scholarship, Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience asserts that park guests collaborate with Disney Imagineers more than typically assumed. The books various sections explore nostalgia, utopia, progress, and fantasy; the ideology of park environments; the presence of human and audio-animatronic performers; and the inclusion of outsider identities within the parks.

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