Disneyfication
Disneyfication is a term used in urban planning and architectural sociology .
content
It stands for a new definition of city and society in which the revival of old value systems plays a central role. The concept of the theme park should no longer only serve the dreamlike, short-term, relaxation-promising exit from the real world, it now also promises real world improvement. In an almost cultic way, the guiding principles of the company founder Walt Disney are being rediscovered as a new social concept, the ideal notion that everyone is their own blacksmith, driven by dreams that are realized through their willpower. Disneyfication becomes a symbol of the realization of the “ American Dream ”.
The process of Disneyfication of urban spaces like Times Square has been criticized for many reasons. On the one hand, this goes hand in hand with a strong control of the public space , from which everything undesirable (such as homelessness , prostitution , drug use ) is pushed out - a parallel to dictatorial societies. On the other hand, a non-real illusory world is created in which the social problems but also the social plurality (in relation to religions, ethnicity and life plans) of the city do not take place and are thus forgotten and negated. There is a reduction in public and social space to the happy Christian-white nuclear family.
In the movie
The Disneyfication of Las Vegas ' is themed in the final scene of Martin Scorsese's feature film Casino and in The Cooler - Alles auf Liebe .
literature
- Alan E. Bryman: The Disneyization of Society , Sage Publications. 2004 ISBN 0761967656
- Sønke Gau and Katharina Schlieben (eds.): Site-seeing: Disneyfication of cities? , Berlin 2003 ISBN 3933557429
- Frank Roost: The Disneyfication of the Cities . Vs Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3810029564
- Sharon Zukin : The Cultures of Cities , Blackwell Publishing. 1996
Disneyfication in the movie
- Wasko, Janet: Understanding Disney. The Manufacture of Fantasy. Cambridge: Polity Press 2001
- Zipes, Jack: Breaking the Disney Spell. In: From Mouse to Mermaid. The politics of film, gender, and culture. Edited by Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, Laura Sells. Bloomington / Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995
Web links
- archinoah.de Disneyfication - The theme park as a city concept
- Treatise on Disneyfication
swell
- Disneyfication - The theme park as a city concept (PDF file) (only available to registered users of the website; 1.06 MB)