The Walt Disney Robot Dramas

Bierman, James H. "The Walt Disney Robot Dramas." The Yale Review 66.2 (Winter 1977): [223]-36.

Primarily on The General Electric Carousel of Progress (New York Worlds Fair, 1964-65; Disneyland, 1974 f., Walt Disney World, 1975 f.), but with comments also on Disney's audio-animatronic animal dramas America Sings and Country Bear Jamboree, and on F. T. Marinetti's Automata (see Marinetti listing under Drama). See for a cultural-studies close reading of GE's Carousel (undoubtedly closer than GE intended): the robots "are progressively more fluid and human in their movements" as Carousel progresses from the 1890s into the present," while the characters they portray are increasingly isolated and dehumanized" (228). See also JHB's "Automated Theatre."

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