Researching Disney History

Disney - Secondary Sources

Brockway, Robert W.
“The Masks of Mickey Mouse: Symbol of a Generation.” Journal of Popular Culture. 22,4 (1989).

Bryman, Alan.
Disney and His Worlds. London: Routledge, 1995.

Byrne, Eleanor and Martin McQuillan.
Deconstructing Disney. London: Pluto Press, 1999.

Giroux, Henry A.
The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999.

Hunt, Pauline and Ronald Frankenberg.
“It’s a Small World: Disneyland, the Family and The Multiple Representations of American Childhood” in Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood. Edited by Allison James and Alan Prout. London: The Falmer Press, 1990.

Isozaki, Arati.
“Theme Park.” South Atlantic Quarterly. 92,1 (1993).

Johnson, David M.
“Disney World as Structure and Symbol: Re-Creation of the American Experience.” Journal of Popular Culture. 15,1 (1981).

King, Margaret J.
“Disneyland and Walt Disney World: Traditional Values in Futuristic Form.” Journal of Popular Culture. 15, 1 (1981).

Klugman, Karen, Jane Kuenz, Shelton Waldrep and Susan Willis.
Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World. The Project on Disney. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Kuenz, Jane.
“It’s a Small World After All: Disney and the Pleasures of Identification.” South Atlantic Quarterly. 92,1 (1993).

Mannheim, Steve.
Walt Disney and the Quest for Community. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing, 2002.

Smoodin, Eric, ed.
Disney Discourse: Producing the Magic Kingdom. New York: Routledge, 1994.

Sorkin, Michael.
“See You in Disneyland.” In Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space. Edited by Michael Sorkin. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992.

Uelmen, Amelia J.
Seeing the U.S.A.: The Landscapes of Walt Disney. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1991.

Wallace, Mike.
Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.

Wasko, Janet.
Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2001.

Willis, Susan.
“Disney World: Public Use/Private State.” South Atlantic Quarterly. 92, 1 (1993).