Read Along With Us This
Semester
Looking for some good reading
this spring?
Join us as we explore a variety of themes and topics in American life
through the lens of Disney.
Week 1: Jan 16-20
The Chicago World’s Fair
DVD: Expo: Magic of the
White
City
The Devil in the
White
City: Murder,
Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America,
Eric Larson
Week 2: Jan 23-27
History of Travel and Tourism
Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States,
Cindy Aron
4th of July,
Asbury Park: A History
of the Promised Land,
Daniel Wolff
Week
3: Jan. 30-Feb 3
Coney Island
Good Old
Coney Island: A
Sentimental Journey Into the Past,
Edo McCullough
Amusing the Millions: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century, John
F. Kasson
Week 4: Feb 6-10
Williamsburg and Jamestown
Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative, Robert S.
Tilton
New History in an
Old
Museum:
Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg,
Richard Handler and Eric
Gable
Week 5: Feb 13-17
Myth and Fairy Tale
Lieberman, Marcia K.
“’Some Day My Prince Will Come”: Female Acculturation through the Fairy
Tale.” In Don’t Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in
North America and England. Ed. Jack Zipes. NY: Methuen, 1986. Pages
185-200.
The Oxford Companion to
Fairy Tales.
Ed. Jack Zipes. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. The sections on a least two fairy
tales.
Stone, Kay. “Things Walt
Disney Never Told Us.” Journal of American Folklore 88.347, Women
and Folklore (Jan. - Mar., 1975): 42-50.
Zipes, Jack. “Breaking the
Disney Spell.” In From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender,
and Culture. Ed. Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells.
Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995. Pages 21-42.
Week 6: Feb
20-24
Propaganda
DVD: Disney on the Front Lines
Video: Davy Crockett
Disney TV, J.P. Telotte
Week 7: Feb 27-March 3
Roadside Attractions/Tourism
Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange and the Substance
of Faith, Timothy K. Beal
The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class, Dean McCannel
March 6-10 – SPRING BREAK
Week
8: March 13-17
Race
Articles TBD
Week 9: March 20-24
The Disney Parks
Designing Disney's Theme Parks, Karal Ann Marling
Married to the Mouse, Richard Fogelsong
Week 10: March 27-31
Corporate America
DVD: The Corporation
The Disney
Way: Harnessing
the Management Secrets of Disney in Your Company,
Bill Capodagli and Lynn
Jackson
Week 11: April 3-7
Community
Celebration Chronicles: Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Property
Values in Disney's New Town, Andrew Ross
Selections from Disney and the Quest for Community,
Steve Mannheim
Week 12: April 10-14
Disney Abroad
“Bwana Mickey: Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disney," in
Cultures of U.S. Imperialism, Mary Yoko Brannen
Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World, Carl Hiassen
Week 13: April 17-21
The Big Trip!
“Disney World: Public Use/Private Space,” in Signs of Life in the USA,
Susan Willis
Week 14: April 24-28
From
Walt to
Woodstock: How Disney
Created the Counterculture,
Douglas Brode
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