Inside the mouse : work and play at Disney World / the Project on Disney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

The Project on Disney, The Project on Disney, Author.

Contributor:

Project on Disney.

Series:

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walt Disney World (Fla.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This entertaining and playful book views Disney World as much more than the site of an ideal family vacation. Blending personal meditations, interviews, photographs, and cultural analysis, Inside the Mouse looks at Disney World’s architecture and design, its consumer practices, and its use of Disney characters and themes. This book takes the reader on an alternative ride through "the happiest place on earth" while asking "What makes this forty-three-square-mile theme park the quintessential embodiment of American leisure?"Turning away from the programmed entertainment that Disney presents, the authors take a peek behind the scenes of everyday experience at Disney World. In their consideration of the park as both private corporate enterprise and public urban environment, the authors focus on questions concerning the production and consumption of leisure. Featuring over fifty photographs and interviews with workers that strip "cast members" of their cartoon costumes, this captivating work illustrates the high-pressure dynamics of the typical family vacation as well as a tour of Disney World that looks beyond the controlled facade of themed attractions.As projects like EuroDisney and the proposed Disney America test the strength of the Disney cultural monolith, Inside the Mouse provides a timely assessment of the serious business of supplying pleasure in contemporary U.S. culture. Written for the general reader interested in the many worlds of Disney, this engrossing volume will also find fans among students and scholars of cultural studies.

Contents:

The problem with pleasure

Reality revisited

The family vacation

It's a small world after all

Story time

Under the influence

Working at the rat

The alternative ride

Public use/private state

Monuments to Walt.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-250).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822316244

0822316242

9780822397045

0822397048

OCLC:

1140675072