Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience
The Tourist as Actor
?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 book's 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.Jennifer A. Kokai is an Associate Professor and Theatre Program Coo…
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Weitere Autoren: Robson, Tom (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-030-29321-5
- EAN: 9783030293215
- Produktnummer: 31944340
- Verlag: Springer Nature EN
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm 0 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2019
- Sonstiges: Research
Über den Autor
Jennifer A. Kokai is Associate Professor of Theatre at Weber State University, USA. Her book Swim Pretty: Aquatic Spectacles and the Performance of Race, Gender, and Nature was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2017. Her essay Shamu the (Killer) Whale and an Ecology of Commodity which focused on SeaWorld was published in Showing Off, Showing Up: Studies of Hype, Heightened Performance, and Cultural Power edited by Laurie Frederik, Kim Marra, and Catherine Schuler. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017), 81-106. She has also published articles in Theatre History Studies, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and The Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (with Mary-Beth Willard). Tom Robson is Associate Professor of Theatre & Dance and Coordinator of Academics at Millikin University, USA. Recent publications include work on historical stage technology in both the journal Theatre Design and Technology and the edited collection Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor. Other major areas of research interest include African American theatre and drama, musical theatre history, and inclusive theatre pedagogy. He has also published in Theatre History Studies, Theatre Journal, Ecumenica, and the film journal Jump Cut.
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