Jennifer A. Kokai is director of the School of Theatre and Dance and the Endowed Chair of the Holloway and the Brit at the University of South Florida. Tom Robson is assistant teaching professor in Purdue University’s Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program.
Jennifer A. Kokai & Tom Robson's Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety is a must-read for anyone interested in the serious study of Disney's theme parks. Astutely weaving together moments of lived personal experience with a range of academic approaches and concepts, the book offers a timely and essential analysis of the ongoing political, social and cultural tensions being played out within the spaces of Walt Disney World. --Rebecca Williams, University of South Wales