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Author:   Kathy Merlock Jackson ,  Mark I West
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786443727

ISBN 10:   0786443723
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   30 November 2010
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction      The Disneyland Concept The Theme Park: The Art of Time and Space Margaret J. King and J. G. O’Boyle      Synergystic Disney: New Directions for Mickey and Media in 1954–1955 Kathy Merlock Jackson      Animator as Architect: Disney’s Role in the Creation of Children’s Architecture Mark I. West      Disneyland Attractions Disneyland’s Main Street, U.S.A., and Its Sources in Hollywood, U.S.A. Robert Neuman      Frontierland as an Allegorical Map of the American West Richard Francaviglia      The Dark Ride of Snow White: Narrative Strategies at Disneyland Suzanne Rahn      Tom Sawyer Island: Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and the Literary Playground Mark I. West      A Southern California Boyhood in the Simu- Southland Shadows of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room Craig Svonkin      Disneyland’s Variations Disneyland Paris: A Clash of Cultures Christian Renaut      Hong Kong Disneyland: Feng Shui Inside the Magic Kingdom Derham Groves      Hyperurbanity: Idealism, New Urbanism, and the Politics of Hyperreality in the Town of Celebration, Florida Eric Detweiler      Disneyland’s Influence Theme Parks and Films—Play and Players J. P. Telotte      Of Theme Parks and Television: Walt Disney, Rod Serling, and the Politics of Nostalgia Douglas Brode      Vacation in Historyland Katherine Howe      Autographs for Tots: The Marketing of Stars to Children Kathy Merlock Jackson      Forget the Prozac, Give Me a Dose of Disney Cathy Scibelli      The Disney Effect: Fifty Years After Theme Park Design Margaret J. King      About the Contributors      Index     

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Kathy Merlock Jackson, a professor of media and communication at Virginia Wesleyan University, teaches courses in media studies and children’s culture. She is the author or editor of thirteen books and former editor of The Journal of American Culture. She has served as past president of both the American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Association. Mark I. West is the former chair of the English department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has written or edited nineteen books on children’s literature and culture and is a former president of the Children’s Literature Association.

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