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Designing Disney's Theme Parks

by Karal Ann Marling

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ISBN13: 9782080136398
ISBN10: 2080136399
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From the day it opened in July 1955, in an event given live TV coverage, Disneyland has been a key symbol of contemporary American culture. It has been both celebrated and attacked as the ultimate embodiment of consumer society, a harbinger of shopping-mall culture, a symbol of American hegemony in entertainment, the epitome of fantasy, simulation, pastiche, and the blurring of distinctions between reality and mass-media imagery. Yet for all the power of Disneyland as metaphor, almost no one has discussed the making of this unique place, with its far-flung colonies in Florida, Japan, and France. Written to accompany an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance is the first book to look beyond the multiple myths of Disneyland.

Uniting a roster of authors chosen from wide-ranging disciplines, this study is the first to examine the influence of Disneyland on both our built environment and our architectural imagination. Tracing the relationship of the Disney parks to their historical forbears, it charts Disneyland's evolution from one man's personal dream to a multinational enterprise, a process in which the Disney "magic" has moved ever closer to the real world. Editor Karal Ann Marling, Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota, draws upon her pioneering work in the Disney archives to reconstruct and analyze the intentions and strategies behind the parks. She is joined by Marty Sklar, Vice Chairman and Principal Creative Executive of Walt Disney Imagineering, historian Neil Harris, art historian Erika Doss, geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, critic Greil Marcus, and architect Frank Gehry to provide a unique perspective on one of the great post-war American icons.

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Canadian Centre for Architecture From plans, posters, models, drawings, and paintings created by Walt Disney Incorporated's "Imagineering" department, this volume explores popular and critical responses to the architecture of Disney parks from 1955 to today.
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stephelle2k7, March 8, 2007 (view all comments by stephelle2k7)
this book helped me so much in learning the facts of the sunshine state and the Walt Disney World Resort
it showed me everything i need to know little facts and big facts.
it showed me all the specail events that were going on now and yet to come its the book for me and the book for everyone else to!!! GET IT NOW!!
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ISBN:
9782080136398
Subtitle:
The Architecture of Reassurance
Other:
Marling, Karal Ann
Author:
Marling, Karal Ann
Author:
Doss, Erika
Author:
Harris, Neil
Author:
Centre Canadien Darchitecture
Publisher:
Flammarion
Subject:
Criticism
Subject:
Popular Culture
Subject:
Design & Drafting
Subject:
Buildings
Subject:
Architecture
Subject:
Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings
Subject:
Amusement parks
Subject:
Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial
Subject:
General Architecture
Copyright:
1998
Publication Date:
19980215
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
270 COLOR and BandW ILLUSTRATIONS
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
11.38x10.39x.91 in. 3.44 lbs.
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