ISSN:
0022-3840
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of popular culture : JPC : the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Popular Literature Section (Comparative Literature II) of the Modern Language Association of America and the Popular Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association
Publ. der Quelle:
Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell Publ
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 48, No. 2 (2015), p. 225-239
DDC:
390
Abstract:
Baber and Spickard chart in some detail the visual and musical techniques used in the Small World ride at Anaheim Disneyland to reflect a particularly American image of other countries. They show how the Small World ride reinforces an ethnocentric sense that all the world's peoples are fundamentally just like Americans, albeit with different languages, foods, customs, and dress. The Anaheim ride's 2009 refurbishment, which inserted Disney film characters among the animatronic dolls, reinforced a growing theme in the park at large: that Disneyland is its own fantasy universe, which one can visit through movies, books, soundtrack recordings, and the park itself. This theme does not replace the ride's American ethnocentrism; instead, both themes operate at once. Popular culture is like that: It is interesting precisely because so many things are going on simultaneously. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
Note:
Copyright: © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12253/abstract
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1674621445
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