Edward Was HereHUM 3085: Florida Culture

Fall 2010Dr. Perdigao

October 22, 2010

Land of Sunshine, State of Edward• Who Framed Edward Scissorhands? (Thanks, Matt)

• Edward Scissorhands as allegory

• Florida’s development

• Toontown, suburbs• Eatonville: Disney World: Celebration: Toontown: Lutz, Florida• Notion of “otherness,” inside and outside the community• Santiago: Janie: Tiana: Roger Rabbit: Edward Scissorhands

• Construction of the suburbshttp://www.usforacle.com/on-location-1.1761812

http://www.timburtoncollective.com/articles/es16.html

• Pastel houses

• Unnatural landscaping (Disney, Epcot?)

• Role of machines, technology (back to Donald Duck)

• Ice, air conditioning, control over environment

• Humanizing technology

It’s a small world (again?)• Surreal world (Tomorrowland, Future World, Haunted Mansion?)

• Romanticized sense of reality

• Innocence, childlike wonder

• No limits—Edward as Walt?

• Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Rabbit/Roger Rabbit • Walt Disney/Edward Scissorhands• Michael Eisner/Lord Farquaad