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.
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Tourism, Performance, Anxiety
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ISBN
9781666932409
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Lexington Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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