Word: disneyized
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This institutionalization of imagination has its roots in most unpromising soil. Publicity releases quote Disney as saying, or rather getting the concept across, "I don't want the public to see the real world they live in while they're in the Park. I want them to feel they're in another world." But this other world is always informed by Disney's background, brought to life in the view of Mainstreet USA as you enter the park. Here the basic unit of small town nineteenth-century America seems to epitomize for Disney all that is happy. Interestingly, these...
...Disney creations gradually gained a more substantial reality in 1955 when Walt Disney founded Disneyland. Since that time, his animated figures have been gaining increasing reality through technological improvements, and Disneyland itself has become too real to be an amusement park. In conceiving of Disneyland. Disney again played a merely conceptual role in terms of actual design, although he personally designed Tom Sawyer's Island. This, taken with Main Street USA, indicates that Disney was primarily interested in pristine nostalgia for a lost boyhood mythology of the nineteenth century Disney must have felt exiled from this world when his father...
...Persia, or China. But even better is the Haunted House. In this house, foot-high three-dimensional translucent women wail for demon lovers, tombstones topple over revealing their gruesome contents--the entire effect alternates between mild hysteria and wondering how those full size three dimensional ghosts are done. But Disney's "imagineers" aren't telling...
...each of these courses seems born and bred at Disneyland. In the new Academic environment, the experience is given a new theoretical and often satirical thrust, but there still remains the intrinsic fascination of the possibility of technology to alter states of consciousness, or in the words of Walt Disney, "to make people feel they're in another world." The imagineers of Disneyland, of course, never say what they mean to do with all their rides, gimmicks, and audio-animatronical robots, but C.I.A. knows...
...course, Disneyland and C.I.A. are at war. Most students at C.I.A. are not presentable enough in the eyes of Disneyland employees to be admitted to their spiritual father, and the board of trustees of C.I.A.--the Disney people--are greatly removed in sensibility from the people who actually teach. They had hoped for a nice art school, a Western Julliard perhaps; instead, what appears to be the most advanced art school anywhere in the US grew out of the ferment, and some of the side effects are frightening to those who had been looking at all this Disney business...