{"product_id":"vinyl-leaves-walt-disney-world-and-america-institutional-structures-of-feeling","title":"Vinyl Leaves: Walt Disney World and America (Institutional Structures of Feeling)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWalt Disney World is a pilgrimage site filled with utopian elements  craft  and whimsy. Its a pedestrians world  where the streets are clean  the employees are friendly  and the trains run on time. All of its elements are themed  presented in a consistent architectural  decorative  horticultural  musical  even olfactory tone  with rides  shows  restaurants  scenery  and costumed characters coordinated to tell a consistent set of stories. It is beguiling and exasperating  a place of ambivalence and ambiguity. In Vinyl Leaves Professor Fjellman analyzes each ride and theater show of Walt Disney World and discusses the history  political economy  technical infrastructure  and urban planning of the area as well as its relationship with Metropolitan Orlando and the state of Florida.Vinyl Leaves argues that Disney  in pursuit of its own economic interests  acts as the muse for the allied transnational corporations that sponsor it as well as for the world of late capitalism  where the commodity form has colonized much of human life. With brilliant technological legerdemain  Disney puts visitors into cinematically structured stories in which pieces of American and world culture become ideological tokens in arguments in favor of commodification and techno-corporate control. Culture is construed as spirit  colonialism and entrepreneurial violence as exotic zaniness  and the Other as child.Exhaustion and cognitive overload lead visitors into the bliss of Commodity Zenthe characteristic state of postmodern life. While we were watching for Orwell  Huxley rode into town  bringing soma  cable  and charge cardsand wearing mouse ears. This book is the story of our commodity fairyland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966694682677,"sku":"ByrdShop_0813314720","price":60.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780813314723.jpg?v=1770575099","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/vinyl-leaves-walt-disney-world-and-america-institutional-structures-of-feeling","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}