Walt Disney's Frontierland as an Allegorical Map of the American West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3311966 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Francaviglia (St Michael's Hospital, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Historical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-3810 • E-ISSN: 1939-8603 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/970490 |
| OpenAlex | W2435875189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
In this essay, a historical geographer and cartographic historian interprets Walt Disney's Frontierland as botha miniaturized environment and a stylized map. He speculates that Frontierland perpetuates deeply rooted, and widely shared, mainstream American attitudes toward United States expansionism from the late nineteenth century through the Cold War
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |