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Walt Disney World
Since its opening day in 1971, Walt Disney World has grown into the world's largest and most visited theme park. Located in central Florida, the resort is home to countless attractions, hotels, rides, and stores, all of which celebrate the imaginative mind and films of animator Walt Disney. Walt Disney World provides historical information about the theme park and an overview of what visitors can see and experience there today. Features include a glossary, a map, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Performance and the Disney Theme Park Experience
This book addresses Disney parks using performance theory. Few to no scholars have done this to date—an enormous oversight given the Disney parks’ similarities to immersive theatre, interpolation of guests, and dramaturgical construction of attractions. Most scholars and critics deny agency to the tourist in their engagement with the Disney theme park experience. The vast body of research and journalism on the Disney “Imagineers”—the designers and storytellers who construct the park experience—leads to the misconception that these exceptional artists puppeteer every aspect of the guest’s experience. Contrary to this assumption, Disney park guests find a range of possible reading strategies when they enter the space. Certainly Disney presents a primary reading, but generations of critical theory have established the variety of reading strategies that interpreters can employ to read against the text. This volume of twelve essays re-centers the park experience around its protagonist: the tourist.
Animating the Victorians
Many Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is often called the Golden Age of children’s literature. Animating the Victorians: Disney’s Literary History explores Disney’s adaptations of Victorian texts like Alice in Wonderland, Oliver Twist, Treasure Island, Peter Pan, and the tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Author Patrick C. Fleming traces those adaptations from initial concept to theatrical release and beyond to the sequels, consumer products, and theme park attractions that make up a Disney franchise. During the production process, which often extended over decades, Disney’s writers engaged not just with the texts themselves but with the contexts in which they...
ウォルト・ディズニー・ワールドの肖像 魔法の国の50年
ウォルト・ディズニーの壮大な夢を実現した、「地球上で一番マジカルな場所」の作り方 2022年に50周年を迎えた、米フロリダのウォルト・ディズニー・ワールド。家族が楽しい時間を過ごせるリゾートとして、新しい休暇の過ごし方、もてなしの形を提供し、世界中から訪れるゲストたちを楽しませてきました。 1965年にウォルト・ディズニー・ワールド・リゾートの計画が発表され、その翌年にウォルト・ディズニーが亡くなった後も、キャストメンバーやイマジニアたちは、ウォルト・ディズニーの最も壮大な夢の...
Disney Trivia from the Vault
Dave "Ask Dave" Smith, retired Chief Archivist of The Walt Disney Company, has been fielding Disney trivia questions for over 30 years. And now, the most intriguing of those questions and answers have been compiled in this secret-filled book!
Disney U: How Disney University Develops the World's Most Engaged, Loyal, and Customer-Centric Employees
When it comes to world-class employees, few organizations rival Disney. Famous for their friendliness, knowledge, passion, and superior customer service, Disney's employees have been fueling the iconic brand's wild success for more than 50 years.
