Kathy Merlock Jackson is a professor of media and communication at Virginia Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses in media studies and children's culture. She is the author of over a hundred articles, chapters, and reviews and has published fourteen books. She is a former editor of The Journal of American Culture and a past president of the Popular Culture Association. Mark I. West is the former chair of the English department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has written or edited twenty-five books on children's literature and culture and is a former president of the Children's Literature Association.

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