A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Casey Walker explores how Disney is using synergy between its content library and its theme parks as it prepares to launch a new streaming service to compete with Netflix.
Read moreIn his final essay on his graduate course “The Textual Object,” Nicholas Sammond presents his class’s final production of Disneyland, the Reader.
Read moreIn this post, Nicholas Sammond continues his discussion of teaching Disneyland as text. Using Lefebvre, he illustrates the value of space for discerning and analyzing textuality in the classroom.
Read moreNicholas Sammond considers Disneyland as a text, engaging the amusement park as a textual (and intertextual) object and narrative in relation to Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia, in order to expand notions of textuality and its study.
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