Bibliograph

Disney's land, Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world, Richard Snow

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Disney's land, Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world, Richard Snow

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Disney's land

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Richard Snow

Sub title

Walt Disney and the invention of the amusement park that changed the world

Summary

"By the early 1950s Walt Disney's great achievements in animation were behind him, and he was increasingly bored by the two-dimensional film medium. He wanted to work in three, to build an entirely new sort of amusement park, one that relied more on cinematic techniques than on thrill rides ... Disneyland's Main Street sparked an architectural preservation movement that touched every American downtown--and remains controversial: many see it as a retreat from life itself. What is beyond argument is that Disneyland was something new, both in public entertainment and in the way its 'lands' managed to chime with how millions of Americans wanted to view their country"--, Provided by publisher

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