Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety

by Tom Robson and Jennifer A. Kokai University of South Flori

Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World, in a time of unmatched cultural anxiety, the authors use their influential 'tourist as actor' framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performances of implicit Americanness through case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666932396
• ISBN13: 9781666932393
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"