Disneyland and Culture

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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• Table of ContentsIntroduction      The Disneyland ConceptThe Theme Park: The Art of Time and SpaceMargaret J. King and J. G. O’Boyle      Synergystic Disney: New Directions for Mickey and Media in 1954–1955Kathy Merlock Jackson      Animator as Architect: Disney’s Role in the Creation of Children’s ArchitectureMark I. West      Disneyland AttractionsDisneyland’s Main Street, U.S.A., and Its Sources in Hollywood, U.S.A.Robert Neuman      Frontierland as an Allegorical Map of the American WestRichard Francaviglia      The Dark Ride of Snow White: Narrative Strategies at DisneylandSuzanne Rahn      Tom Sawyer Island: Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and the Literary PlaygroundMark I. West      A Southern California Boyhood in the Simu- Southland Shadows of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki RoomCraig Svonkin      Disneyland’s VariationsDisneyland Paris: A Clash of CulturesChristian Renaut      Hong Kong Disneyland: Feng Shui Inside the Magic KingdomDerham Groves      Hyperurbanity: Idealism, New Urbanism, and the Politics of Hyperreality in the Town of Celebration, FloridaEric Detweiler      Disneyland’s InfluenceTheme Parks and Films—Play and PlayersJ. P. Telotte      Of Theme Parks and Television: Walt Disney, Rod Serling, and the Politics of NostalgiaDouglas Brode      Vacation in HistorylandKatherine Howe      Autographs for Tots: The Marketing of Stars to ChildrenKathy Merlock Jackson      Forget the Prozac, Give Me a Dose of DisneyCathy Scibelli      The Disney Effect: Fifty Years After Theme Park DesignMargaret J. King      About the Contributors      Index