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Book SynopsisPart One: Introduction.- Chapter 1: “You’re In The Parade!” Disney As Immersive Theatre And The Tourist As Actor, Jennifer A. Kokai And Tom Robson.- Part Two: Chronologies– Historic And Fantastic.- Chapter 2: “The Future Is Truly In The Past”: The Regressive Nostalgia Of Tomorrowland, Tom Robson.- Chapter 3: “Some Of Our Closest, Unnamed Friends: First Nation Culture And Indexical Absence At Walt Disney World”, Victoria Pettersen Lantz.- Chapter 4: Taming The Fairy Tale: Performing Affective Medievalism In Fantasyland, Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy.- Chapter 5: Still Searching For A Great, Big, Beautiful Tomorrow: Performing Utopia With Non-Human Bodies In The Hall Of Presidents, Joseph D’ambrosi.- Chapter 6: The Royal Theatre Presents: Echoes Of Melodrama In The Magic Kingdom, Patrice Amon.- Part Three: Environments As Ideologies.- Chapter 7: The Nemofication Of Nature: Animals, Artificiality, And Affect At Disney World, Jennifer A. Kokai.- Chapter 8: Disney-Fying Dixie: Queering The “Laughing Place” At Splash Mountain, Chase Bringardner.- Chapter 9: Rising In The East: Disney Rehearses Chinese Consumers At A Glocalized Shanghai Disneyland, Laura Macdonald.- Chapter 10: Don’t Feel The Magic, Be The Magic: The Challenges Of Language Hybridity In Disneyland Paris, Alia Tyner-Mullings.- Part Four: Counter Identities.- Chapter 11: It’s Good To Be Bad: Resistance, Rebellion, And Disney Villain Merchandise, Christen Mandracchia.- Chapter 12: The Park As Stage: Radical Re-Casting In Disneyland’s Social Clubs, Elizabeth Mcqueen .- Chapter 13: Bulldozing The Fourth Wall: Distok And The Construction Of Community, Dori Koehler.- Chapter 14: “Ruff” Rides And Loose Leashes: Reimagining Non-Human Agency At Disney Theme Parks, Karli Brittz.- Part Five: Conclusion.- Chapter 15: Exemplary Disney: An Afterword, Susan Bennett.
