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Cleansing the Past, Selling the Future: Disney’s Corporate Exhibits at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair
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Disney, 1
Cleansing the Past, Selling the Future:
Disney’s Corporate Exhibits at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair
(student author)
Abstract
This paper offers a historical analysis of Disney’s corporate exhibits at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair, GE’s “Carousel of Progress” and Ford’s “Magic Skyway,” in an attempt to consider their historical and cultural significance. The coming together of Disney’s legacy of nostalgic entertainment achieved via his desire and skill in “improving” the past and future with the equally strong desire of corporate giants to sell themselves and their products is presented here as a case study of the processes of cultural creation: how and why specific discourses of technology and consumption are written into these narratives of the past and the future.
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Disney, 1
Cleansing the Past, Selling the Future:
Disney’s Corporate Exhibits at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair
(student author)
Abstract
This paper offers a historical analysis of Disney’s corporate exhibits at the 1964-65 New
York World’s Fair, GE’s “Carousel of Progress” and Ford’s “Magic Skyway,” in an
attempt to consider their historical and cultural significance. The coming together of
Disney’s legacy of nostalgic entertainment achieved via his desire and skill in
“improving” the past and future with the equally strong desire of corporate giants to sell
themselves and their products is presented here as a case study of the processes of
cultural creation: how and why specific discourses of technology and consumption are
written into these narratives of the past and the future.
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