Nowadays, many people all over the world are interested in learning more about the American Southwest due to its unique history. With an increase in the pace of life, it becomes more and more difficult to find enough time to visit a variety of locations. This brochure devoted to Disneyland will remove your doubts concerning the place to visit to get the full picture of the American Southwest. Disneyland Park in California is among the largest and the most famous theme parks in the world that has offered its visitors unique experiences for more than sixty years.
Apart from the project’s unique architectural decisions and a selection of entertainment options for children and adults, the advantages of your trip to Anaheim will include an opportunity to visit a place where different cultures used to meet. Interestingly, many modern researchers list Disneyland in Anaheim among the “magic lands” that are the embodiment of the new epoch of urban experiences in the Southwest.1 Being known as “the El-Dorado of the American Dream,” California still presents the place of opportunities, including the chance to feel the Southwestern culture and enjoy new adventures.2 The cultural role of Disneyland is widely recognized – instead of being regarded as an amusement park, it can be compared to a cultural monument that unites different generations and destroys time barriers.
The American West is typically associated with new cultural trends. 3 The same is true for the traditions in literature and cinematography.4 As for California and Anaheim, due to Disneyland, they are reflective of both the twentieth-century culture of construction and the unique spirit of pioneers and their life – for instance, Frontierland is the place where the past and the present meet.5 Frontierland in Disneyland is among the brightest examples showing the park’s historical orientation, and visiting it can help you combine the useful with the pleasant and learn history while having fun.
Bibliography
Anderson, Garry, and Kathleen P. Chamberlain. Power and Promise: The Changing American West. New York, NY: Pearson, 2007.
Etulain, Richard W. “Magic Lands – Western Cityscapes and America Culture after 1940 – Findlay, JM.” Journal of American History 80, no. 4 (March 1994): 1521.
Lewis, George H. “Dirt Roads and White Lines: Identity and Place in the Country Sound of the Other California.” Journal of Popular Culture 38, no. 5 (August 2005): 855-887.
Thompson, Craig. “Feelings of Ambivalence: Pulp Westerns and Popular Culture.” Journal of the Southwest 55, no. 2 (Summer 2013): 175-192.
Footnotes
- Richard W. Etulain, “Magic Lands – Western Cityscapes and America Culture after 1940 – Findlay, JM,” Journal of American History 80, no. 4 (1994): 1521.
- George H. Lewis, “Dirt Roads and White Lines: Identity and Place in the Country Sound of the Other California,” Journal of Popular Culture 38, no. 5 (2005): 857.
- Garry Anderson and Kathleen P. Chamberlain, Power and Promise: The Changing American West (New York, NY: Pearson, 2007), 388.
- Craig Thompson, “Feelings of Ambivalence: Pulp Westerns and Popular Culture,” Journal of the Southwest 55, no. 2 (Summer 2013): 179.
- Anderson and Chamberlain, Power and Promise, 369.