This Afterword to Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience: The Tourist as Actor synthesizes the chapters and arguments laid out throughout the collection. Bennett argues that Disney’s theme parks offer many provocative and illuminating theatrical scenes that speak to those critical issues with which theater and performance studies are regularly and appropriately concerned: performance genres and practices; representations of race, gender, and sexuality; affect and engagement; history and time; and movement and embodiment. She proposes a turn to what she terms “Exemplary Disney,” building upon the case studies laid out in the anthology, in order to think more about how the theme park has provided a stage for conceiving and realizing (as well as regularly updating) performance practices, contexts, and markets.

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Exemplary Disney: An Afterword

  • Susan Bennett

摘要

This Afterword to Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience: The Tourist as Actor synthesizes the chapters and arguments laid out throughout the collection. Bennett argues that Disney’s theme parks offer many provocative and illuminating theatrical scenes that speak to those critical issues with which theater and performance studies are regularly and appropriately concerned: performance genres and practices; representations of race, gender, and sexuality; affect and engagement; history and time; and movement and embodiment. She proposes a turn to what she terms “Exemplary Disney,” building upon the case studies laid out in the anthology, in order to think more about how the theme park has provided a stage for conceiving and realizing (as well as regularly updating) performance practices, contexts, and markets.