These essays explore the far-reaching ideology unleashed by Disneyland. Topics include Disney's role in the creation of children's architecture; Frontierland as an allegorical map of the American West; the ""cultural invasion of France"" in Disneyland Paris; the politics of nostalgia; and ""hyperurbanity"" in the town of Celebration, Florida.

Table of Contents

Introduction     

The Disneyland Concept
The Theme Park: The Art of Time and Space
Margaret J. King and J. G. O’Boyle     
Synergystic Disney: New Directions for Mickey and Media in 1954–1955
Kathy Merlock Jackson     
Animator as Architect: Disney’s Role in the Creation of Children’s Architecture
Mark I. West     

Disneyland Attractions
Disneyland’s Main Street, U.S.A., and Its Sources in Hollywood, U.S.A.
Robert Neuman     
Frontierland as an Allegorical Map of the American West
Richard Francaviglia     
The Dark Ride of Snow White: Narrative Strategies at Disneyland
Suzanne Rahn     
Tom Sawyer Island: Mark Twain, Walt Disney, and the Literary Playground
Mark I. West     
A Southern California Boyhood in the Simu- Southland Shadows of Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room
Craig Svonkin     

Disneyland’s Variations
Disneyland Paris: A Clash of Cultures
Christian Renaut     
Hong Kong Disneyland: Feng Shui Inside the Magic Kingdom
Derham Groves     
Hyperurbanity: Idealism, New Urbanism, and the Politics of Hyperreality in the Town of Celebration, Florida
Eric Detweiler     

Disneyland’s Influence
Theme Parks and Films—Play and Players
J. P. Telotte     
Of Theme Parks and Television: Walt Disney, Rod Serling, and the Politics of Nostalgia
Douglas Brode     
Vacation in Historyland
Katherine Howe     
Autographs for Tots: The Marketing of Stars to Children
Kathy Merlock Jackson     
Forget the Prozac, Give Me a Dose of Disney
Cathy Scibelli     
The Disney Effect: Fifty Years After Theme Park Design
Margaret J. King     

About the Contributors     
Index