Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Disney's America

Walt Disney
Victorianism - repression, rationality, gentility, separtation of reason and emotion
Modernism - rejected separation of reason and emotion, civilization and savagery; embraced instinct and subjectivity, abstraction; embraced folklore, the childlike, the nonrational
1928 - "Steamboat Willie" - first animated talkie
Sentimentality, naturalism - more realism, presentation of perfection as an attainable ideal.
1940 - Fantasia
Sentimental Populism
1955 - Disneyland (Adventureland, Fantasyland, Frontierland. Tomorrowland)
Forced Perspective
Enhanced Reality
Imagineering
Disney World
Epcot Center

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