Vinyl leaves : Walt Disney World and America

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Vinyl leaves : Walt Disney World and America

Stephen M. Fjellman

（Institutional structures of feeling）

Westview Press, 1992

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780813314723

内容説明

Walt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements, craft, and whimsy. Its a pedestrians world, where the streets are clean, the employees are friendly, and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed, presented in a consistent architectural, decorative, horticultural, musical, even olfactory tone, with rides, shows, restaurants, scenery, and costumed characters coordinated to tell a consistent set of stories. It is beguiling and exasperating, a place of ambivalence and ambiguity. In Vinyl Leaves Professor Fjellman analyzes each ride and theater show of Walt Disney World and discusses the history, political economy, technical infrastructure, and urban planning of the area as well as its relationship with Metropolitan Orlando and the state of Florida. Vinyl Leaves argues that Disney, in pursuit of its own economic interests, acts as the muse for the allied transnational corporations that sponsor it as well as for the world of late capitalism, where the commodity form has colonized much of human life. With brilliant technological legerdemain, Disney puts visitors into cinematically structured stories in which pieces of American and world culture become ideological tokens in arguments in favor of commodification and techno-corporate control. Culture is construed as spirit, colonialism and entrepreneurial violence as exotic zaniness, and the Other as child. Exhaustion and cognitive overload lead visitors into the bliss of Commodity Zenthe characteristic state of postmodern life. While we were watching for Orwell, Huxley rode into town, bringing soma, cable, and charge cardsand wearing mouse ears. This book is the story of our commodity fairyland.

目次

* Stalking Woozles * Culture and Context * America and Consumption * Distory: Disney History at the Magic Kingdom * More Distory: Mostly EPCOT Center * Go East, Young Mouse * Lets Make a Deal * Marketing the Magic Mall * The Price Is Right: Main Street USA and Hollywood Boulevard * The Grounds: Spatial Infrastructure * Utopia and Urban Planning * Kungaloosh! The Theme Park World * Cinema, Music, Fantasy * Fantasyland and the Disney-MGM Studios * Consumption and Culture Theory * Natures Gifts: Land, Garden, Sea * Tomorrow and the Future * ComputiCore: Computers, Parades, Lunch * Conclusion: Theses on Disney
巻冊次

ISBN 9780813314730

内容説明

With the ingenious use of technology, Walt Disney World puts visitors into cinematically-structured stories in which pieces of American and world culture become ideological tokens. In this examination of America's commodity fairyland, the author analyzes each ride and theatre show of Walt Disney World and discusses the history, political economy, technical infrastructure and urban planning of the area, as well as its relationship with Metropolitan Orlando and the state of Florida.

目次

  • Stalking woozles
  • culture and context
  • America and consumption distory
  • Disney history at the Magic Kingdom
  • more distory
  • mostly EPCOT Center
  • go east, young mouse
  • let's make a deal
  • marketing the Magic Mall
  • the price is right
  • Main Street USA and Hollywood Boulevard
  • the grounds
  • spatial infrastructure
  • utopia and urban planning
  • kungaloosh!
  • the theme park world
  • cinema, music, fantasy
  • fantasyland and the Disney-MGM studios
  • consumption and culture theory
  • nature's "gifts"
  • land, garden, sea
  • tomorrow and the future
  • ComputiCore - computers, parades, lunch
  • conclusion - theses on Disney.

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