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Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience: The Tourist as Actor, 2nd Edition

Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience: The Tourist as Actor, 2nd Edition

Kokai, Jennifer A.
Robson, Tom

Hardcover

General DramaGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3031886100
ISBN13: 9783031886102
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 3 2025
Pages: 357
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Most scholars and critics deny agency to the tourist in their engagement with the Disney theme park experience. The vast body of research and journalism on the Disney Imagineers--the designers and storytellers who construct the park experience--leads to the misconception that these exceptional artists puppeteer every aspect of the guest's experience. This anthology, now in its second edition, re-centers the park experience around its protagonist: the tourist, and addresses the Disney Parks using performance theory, an approach few to no scholars had used prior to the first edition. The authors of the individual essays, as well as the Introduction by Kokai and Robson, and an Afterword by world renowned tourism and performance expert Susan Bennett, recognize the inherently complicated nature of Disney. Many of the contributors consider themselves Disney fans, but also recognize the potentially problematic aspects of Disney parks. This collection permits both perspectives to exist side by side, informing rather than contradicting each other.

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