Riding the black ship : Japan and Tokyo Disneyland / Aviad E. Raz.
Riding the black ship : Japan and Tokyo Disneyland / Aviad E. Raz.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N791.0685213/1
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English
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viii, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. America in Tokyo: The Remaking of Disneyland in Japan -- 2. The Exotic and the Familiar -- 3. Working for TDL -- 4. Organizational Culture and Organizational Critique -- 5. The Theme Park Boom: Remaking the World in Japan -- 6. Receptions of TDL-Disney -- 7. Traveling Theories: Aboard the Black S...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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Since it opened in 1983, Tokyo Disneyland has been analyzed mainly as an example of the globalization of the American leisure industry and its organizational culture, particularly the "company manual." By looking at how Tokyo Disneyland is experienced by employees, management, and visitors, Aviad Raz produces not only a cultural reading of the onst...
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Riding the black ship : Japan and Tokyo Disneyland / Aviad E. Raz.
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Japan and Tokyo Disneyland.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 173.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-236) and index.
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0674768949 (pbk.) :
9780674768932 (cloth : alk. paper)
0674768930 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780674768949 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0674768949 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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791.06852135
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991011981189702626
