Inside the Mouse
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Inside the Mouse

Work and Play at Disney World

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Inside the Mouse

Work and Play at Disney World

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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.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
1995
ISBN
9780822397045
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts & Business

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. The Problem with Pleasure
  4. Reality Revisited
  5. The Family Vacation
  6. It's a Small World After All
  7. Story Time
  8. Under the Influence
  9. Working at the Rat
  10. The Alternative Ride
  11. Public Use/Private State
  12. Monuments to Walt
  13. Notes
  14. Selected Bibliography
  15. Members of the Project on Disney