Throughout much of the twentieth century Walt Disney wielded considerable influence in American culture. By identifying and commercially exploiting a strain of environmental thought that sentimentalized and romanticized nature, Walt Disney influenced the attitudes of millions of Americans concerning how they conceptualized environmental issues. The Walt Disney Company’s nature documentaries and their popularity as both entertainment as well as educational material helped disseminate the virtues of conservation within the American mindset. The Disney interpretation of conservation clashed with other post-war environmental understandings of the ethic, as did the company’s consistently inaccurate representations of nature on film. Disney’s particular strain of environmentalism, based on an Edenic appreciation for nature, the belief that to conserve land it must be developed, and practice of moralizing to humans through anthropomorphized depictions of animal behavior, stood out in contrast to other existing post-war environmental mindsets during the controversy surrounded the proposed construction of a vacation resort in Mineral King, California, following Disney’s death. / History

Ce travail aborde les relations existant entre l’amour platonicien et l’amour présent dans les films d’animation de Walt Disney. Disney étant l’un des plus grands médias culturels occidentaux, si ce n’est mondiaux, retrouver Platon chez Disney, c’est voir l’influence de la philosophie grecque sur l’Occident actuel et son héritage. La comparaison sera déployée selon quatre grands thèmes : le rôle du beau dans l’amour, ἔρως comme intermédiaire, l’amour comme folie divine, l’amour comme méthode éducative. Nous commencerons par exposer les mœurs en Grèce antique, pour présenter adéquatement la position de Platon. Nous nous demanderons ensuite les causes pouvant expliquer l’apparition de la théorie platonicienne de l’amour chez Disney. Nous présenterons par la même occasion les contes qui ont inspiré Disney et qui peuvent parfois avoir des racines platoniciennes. Finalement, nous comparerons les films de Disney avec la pensée de Platon au sujet de l’amour. / This paper presents the existing correlations between the concept of platonic love and the love displayed in Walt Disney's animated movies. Disney being one of the biggest media in Occident, if not in the world, finding Plato's theory in Disney movies means seeing the traces of Greek philosophy in today’s occidental world, and its heritage. We will ask ourselves why there is an existing relationship between Plato’s theory and Disney. The comparison will be made around four themes: the role of beauty in love, ἔρως as intermediary, love as divine foolishness, love as educational method. We will first expose the customs of ancient Greece in order to present adequately Plato’s position. We will present the fairy tales that inspired Disney, which sometimes find their origin in Platonism. Finally, we will compare Disney movies with Plato’s reflections about love.

Chor See-Yu, Li Chuan-Bei. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 55-56). / EXECUTIVE SUMMARY --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vi / Chapter / Chapter I. --- GENERAL INTRODUCTION OF WALT DISNEY CO --- p.1 / Theme Park and Resort --- p.1 / Creative Content --- p.2 / Filmed Entertainment --- p.2 / Television --- p.2 / Walt Disney Feature Animation --- p.3 / Walt Disney Theatrical Productions --- p.3 / Disney Consumer Products --- p.3 / Broadcasting --- p.4 / Problems Identified in the Company --- p.5 / Chapter II. --- INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS --- p.7 / Organizational --- p.7 / Financial --- p.8 / Marketing --- p.9 / R&D --- p.9 / Conclusion of Internal Analysis --- p.10 / Chapter III. --- COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS OF LOCATION --- p.12 / Tourists --- p.13 / Number of Tourists --- p.13 / Purchasing Power of Tourists --- p.13 / Local Residents --- p.14 / Number of Local Residents --- p.14 / Earning of Local Residents --- p.14 / Political and Social Atmosphere --- p.14 / Political Atmosphere and Stability --- p.14 / Social Ethic Standard and Educational Level --- p.15 / Government Policy --- p.15 / Culture and Ethical Factor --- p.16 / Economic Factors --- p.16 / Cost of Doing Business --- p.16 / Resources For Development --- p.17 / Suitable Place For the Construction of the Park --- p.17 / Infrastructure --- p.17 / Overall Attractiveness of the City --- p.18 / Other Factors --- p.19 / Potential For Development of Other Segments --- p.19 / Climate and Weather --- p.19 / Summary of Analysis and Conclusion --- p.20 / Chapter IV. --- EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS --- p.22 / Five Forces Model --- p.22 / Suppliers --- p.22 / Buyers --- p.23 / Competitors --- p.24 / Substitutes --- p.24 / New Entrants --- p.25 / Political Environment --- p.25 / Economical Environment --- p.26 / Social Environment --- p.26 / Technological Environment --- p.27 / Conclusion of External Analysis --- p.27 / Chapter V. --- SWOT ANALYSIS --- p.28 / Strength --- p.28 / Weakness --- p.29 / Opportunities --- p.29 / Threats --- p.29 / Conclusion of SWOT Analysis --- p.30 / Chapter VI. --- PAST EXPERIENCE OF DISNEYLAND PARIS --- p.31 / Painful Experience of Disneyland Paris --- p.31 / Problems Found in Disneyland Paris --- p.32 / Over-optimistic Prediction and Ill Pricing Strategy --- p.32 / Poor Financial Arrangement --- p.32 / Culture Difference and Anti-America Emotion --- p.33 / Over-capacity and High Operating Cost --- p.34 / Financial Performance of Disneyland Paris --- p.34 / Measures to Solve Financial Problems of Disneyland Paris --- p.35 / Chapter VII. --- LESSONS LEARNT FOR HONG KONG DISNEYLAND --- p.38 / Right Pricing Strategy Is Essential For the Theme Park --- p.38 / Highly Leveraged Financial Situations Are Vulnerable --- p.39 / Culture Factors Are Too Critical to be Ignored --- p.39 / Measures Should be Taken to Avoid Over-capacity --- p.40 / Recommendations to Disney on Hong Kong Disneyland --- p.41 / Chapter VIII. --- THE PROGRESS ALREADY IN HONG KONG --- p.43 / General Information of Hong Kong Disneyland --- p.43 / Investment Summary --- p.44 / Project Costs --- p.44 / Financial Arrangement of Theme Park and Facilities --- p.44 / Financial Arrangement of Development of Penny's Bay --- p.45 / Land Lease of the Theme Park --- p.46 / The Reaction of Public Community --- p.46 / The Reaction of Stock Market --- p.47 / Chapter IX. --- CONCERNS IN THE FUTURE --- p.49 / Chapter X. --- CONSULSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.50 / APPENDIX --- p.53 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.55

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication

The objective of this study is to examine the emotional regulation strategies used by Walt Disney World on-stage employees as a way to fulfill requirements set forth by the company. Ten Disney on-stage employees were interviewed off-property in Orlando. The emotional regulation framework was divided into several categories: (1) a distinction between deep acting and surface acting, (2) emotional deviance, and (3) emotional exhaustion. “Surface acting” is a strategy by which employees display company-imposed emotions not genuinely felt, whereas “deep acting” occurs when employees do feel the emotions that they are required to express (Hochschild, 1983). Throughout the data reduction process, five key themes surfaced as the most relevant to the initial research questions: (1) Self-Motivated Deep Acting, (2) Organizational Expectations for Surface Acting, (3) “Back-Stage” vs. “Front-Stage” Dichotomy, (4) Benefits of Emotional Training, and (5) Negative Effects of Emotional Regulation. Overall, the researcher found that a key strategy of emotional regulation that Disney employees use frequently is surface acting, although deep acting was found to be more successful. In addition, while emotional exhaustion was a common problem among employees, very few of them will actually engage in emotional deviance in order to avoid the negative consequences of surface acting. Lastly, it was found that highly skilled Walt Disney World employees will have already internalized emotional regulation training and display rules that manage emotional behavior. Therefore, it becomes less essential for the Disney Company to formally monitor its employees’ facial expressions and emotional behavior in the future

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