CHAPTER 7: EXTRA EXTRA—
READ ALL ABOUT IT:
DISNEYLAND’S OPTIONAL EXCURSIONAL ESSAYS

Preamble

Antistructure Excursion

** Liminality and Rites of Passage
** Carnival and Communitas
** Playful Pilgrimage Center
** The Role of Rebellion
** Rebel With a Cause

Art of the Show Excursion

** It's All an Illusion
*** Illusions Within Illusions
*** Audience Participation in the Illusion
*** Intermixing Illusion and Reality
*** Return of the Excluded Middle—Mini-Excursion Into Transitional Space

** “C” ing How Disney Does It
** Care and Cleanliness

** Disney’s Complementarity Principle
*** Grow With the Flow
*** Safe Enough to Play
*** The Architecture of Reassurance

** Color
** Cinematic Nature
*** Imagineers
*** Illustrated Images
**** A Tale of Two Coasters
**** Narrative Nature
**** Movement Through Space
**** It's All Show Business Folks
**** The Importance of Animation

** The Role of Control

The Cherishing of Childhood Excursion

** Neoteny—Cosmological Calling to Childhood
** The Roots and History of Neoteny
** The Face of Neoteny

The Looking-Back Looking-Forward Excursion

** Paradise

** Nostalgia
*** Disneyland’s Design—A Rose-Colored Backwards Glance Into Childhood
*** Mini-Excursion— History of Nostalgia
*** You Can’t Go Home Again
*** Nostalgia Plays With the Past

** Back to the Future—The Utopia connection
*** Utopian Associations
*** The “Word” on Utopia
*** Other Utopian Features
*** Back to the Future—Maybe It's Both at the Same Time

Child of the Times Excursion

** Reflection of the Times

** Like Father Like Child
*** Culturally Criticized
*** Disney and the American Dream
*** Baby Boomer
*** I Think He’s Got It!—Magical Mediators
**** A Bit of Background on Binaries
**** Bringing in Bricolage and Play
**** Mr. Mediator
**** Land of Dreams

** Disneyland and Television—The TV Show That Was Also a Themepark
*** Christmas Special
*** The Deal of the Century
*** Interplay Between Television and Disneyland—The TV Series and the Park
*** Windows Onto the World and the Future

** California Kid
*** Answer to LA
*** A Different World

Disneyland's Amusing Ancestry Excursion

** Historical Precedents of Disneyland

** Open Spaces as Entertaining Places—Pleasure Parks

** Take Me to the Fair
*** Amusement Parks
*** Coney Island’s Influence

** More Immediate Influences on Disney
*** Los Angeles Streetscapes
*** Take Me to the Fair Redux
*** Research Field Trips

CHAPTER 8: MARY POPPINS AWAKENS
PLAY’S TRANSFORMATIVE POWER

Preface to Mary Poppins

Astrological Aspects in Mary Poppins

** Reiteration of Starring Planetary Players
** Featured Planetary Archetypal Complexes
** Archetypal Aspects at Play in the Movie
** Cultural Correspondences in the 1960s
** Depth Psychology’s Archetypal Agreement

Rebellious 60’s Retrospective—The Startling Sixties, A Dynamic Decade

** You Say You Want a Revolution
*** Taking It to the Streets—A Very Violent Time
*** Civil Rights and Wrongs

** Science and Technology Take Off
*** Space The Final Frontier
*** Meet the Man Behind the Other Mouse
****Doug’s Dream
****Doug’s Daring Demonstration
*** Innovations, Discoveries, and New Views Illustrated 

** That’s Entertainment?! –From Baring It All on Broadway to What TV Showed
*** Broadway Au Natural
*** The Silver Screen—Sexier and Shadowier
*** Television’s Tamer Fare 

** Disney Does It All

** Moving Music
*** Many Modes of Expression
*** Rock and Roll Reigns Supreme 

** Sex, Drugs…

** Fads and Fashions From Funky to Just Plain Fun

Sceneplay for Mary Poppins

** Behind the Scenes
*** The History of Mary Poppins
*** The Disney Magic
*** Meeting Bert

** Archetypal Overview
*** Take One
*** Take Two—Another View

** Ongoing Themes Excursions

*** Neoteny Excursion
**** Tale of Two Strategies
**** Mary Poppins’s Strategic Moves
**** Beware of Banking Education

*** Excursion into Liminality
**** Here We Go Again—Liminality Reiterated
**** Communitas—The Power of Connection
**** Turner’s Topic Mirrors the Turbulent Times
**** Liminality Plays Throughout Mary Poppins
**** The Creative Power of Chaotic Times

*** A Trickster Tour
**** Tricksters in a Nutshell
**** A Bit of Background on the Trickster
**** Mary Poppins—Disney’s Most Spectacular "Trickstar"
**** Bert as Hermes

*** The Tricks of the Trade—Excursion into Mary’s Nonordinary Magic
**** Welcome to Trance—The Nonordinary State
**** Welcome to My World—Rapport and Pacing
**** The Power of Confusion
**** Meandering Messages—Indirect Suggestion
**** Presto Chango—Changing Meaning Through Reframing

*** Laughter Excursion
****Historical Perspectives
**** A Special Kind of Laughter
**** Laughter’s Liberatory Perspective
****Laughter and Creativity

** Scene-By-Scene-Play of Mary Poppins

*** Mysterious Beginnings
**** Opening Credits
**** Cherry Tree Lane

*** Meeting the Bankses
**** “Sister Suffragette”
**** “The Life I Lead”
**** Dysfunctional Dynamics

*** New Nanny Needed
****"A British Nanny"
****"The Perfect Nanny"
***Meeting Mary Poppins
**** Mary Poppins Arrives
**** “A Spoonful of Sugar"

*** Adventure Into Art
**** Time for an Outing
**** “Jolly Holiday”
**** Time for Tea
**** "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"

*** Back at Home
**** “Stay Awake”
**** A Cheerful Breakfast

*** A Change of Plans
**** “I Love to Laugh”
**** Excursion into Joking Matters
***** It’s Catchy
*****Enlightening Benefits
***** Jokes Abound

*** Sowing the Seeds of Chaos
**** A Few Words with Mary Poppins
**** “Feed the Birds”
***** Background of Song
***** Inner Pilgrimage

*** Let the Bifurcations Begin
**** “Fidelity Fiduciary Bank "
**** The Chaotic Power of Tuppence

*** Chaotic Interlude
**** Bert to the Rescue
**** “Chim Chim Cher-ee”
**** The Rooftops of London
****A Bit About Black
**** “Step in Time”

*** George Gets It
**** A Call From the Bank
**** Mr. Banks is Discharged

*** Happy Endings
**** “Lets Go Fly a Kite”
**** Mary Poppins Departs
**** Closing Credits

Mary Poppins’s Ludic Lessons

CHAPTER 9: PARTING SHOTS

Parting Shots Play by Play
Limitations and Difficulties
Future Study
Wrapping It Up

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Karen Pohn is not associated in any official way with the Walt Disney Company, its subsidiaries, or its affiliates. The official Disney site is available at www.disney.com. This web site cosmicplay.net is my dissertation for my PhD in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, www.pacifica.edu
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