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You can't go to Disneyland because you're already there
Mike Greenberg: Disneyland has given us unreal reality
Web Posted: 07/31/2005 12:00 AM CDT
San Antonio Express-News
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Web Posted: 07/31/2005 12:00 AM CDT
San Antonio Express-News
You can't go to Disneyland because you're already there.
The iconic theme park, which attained its 50th anniversary this month, has exerted a powerful influence on American culture, and especially on the culture of place.
Before Disneyland, with some notable exceptions, a place was what it was the product of its own history, geography, climate, economic base, social arrangements and technological development.
After Disneyland, American places increasingly came to be idealized fictional narratives about place not real places, but metaplaces.
Disneyland was not unprecedented as a metaplace.
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But Disneyland went beyond its precedents in important ways. It wasn't just an individual building or collection of buildings, but a virtual city designed as a narrative ensemble, every visible detail of which served the story line. Unlike world's fairs, Disneyland was a permanent installation, and it disseminated its story to millions of families every week through its own TV show. (.....)
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