Original Essays
These essays represent drafts of ideas that contributed to the completion of my dissertation on Celebration in May, 1998. Currently, I am working to publish later, more comprehensive iterations of these thoughts. I've chosen to make these admittedly incomplete musings available to (hopefully) be of some aid to others as they begin to consider the impact of Celebration on a range of issues.
- "Spaghetti dinners and fireflies in a
jar": Commodified Nostalgia in Disney's Celebration -
"In this essay, I begin to analyze the strategic rendering of temporal
distance and spatial organization
employed by Walt Disney Company to fashion a commodified image of
community."
- Nostalgic Time, Space, and Community
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This section explores arcadian themes in Henry Seidel Canby's (1934) Age
of Confidence. I believe that similar themes may be found in the rhetoric
of Disney's Celebration.
- Arcadian Spaces: Planting the Seeds of
American Utopianism - This section explores the
pastoral influence that might be found in Celebration.
- Playing with Space: Ideal
Communities in
the Postmodern Context - This section examines literature that
addresses the commodification of community.
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