Disneyfication

English

Alternative forms

• disneyfication, Disnification

Etymology

From the US corporation Disney +‎ -fication. Compare earlier Disneyfied and later Disneyfy.

Noun

Disneyfication (uncountable)

1. The act or process whereby something is Disneyfied.
   • 1959, Lawrence Lipton, The Holy Barbarians, Messner, pages 143–44:

     He may even be having his first doubts about the neon chrome artyfake Disneyfication of America.

   • 1998 December 5, “A Reader's Guide To Disneyfication”, in New Internationalist‎^[1]:

     Cultural diversity mirrors the biological and geographical diversity of our planet. ’Disneyfication’, like economic globalization, tends to ride roughshod over local variety. So baseball hats, blue jeans and running shoes become the uniform of teenagers in both Budapest and Bangalore while Western TV shows promote the illusion of limitless wealth.

   • 2014 January/February, Pearl Sydenstricker, “The Disneyfication of Tibet”, in Washington Monthly‎^[2], archived from the original on 2014-01-01, heading:

     The Disneyfication of Tibet
     How tourism has become a tool of occupation.

   • 2020 February 21, David Sims, “Pixar Needs to Make More Movies Like ‘Onward’”, in The Atlantic‎^[3]:

     Given that Onward itself is a family-friendly project, the film thrives on these self-aware digs at Disneyfication; any good D&D mission should have a sense of real danger, so it’s worth pointing out how that’s missing from so much mainstream entertainment.

Related terms

• Disneylandification
• Disneyfy

Translations

Translations

• Esperanto: dizniigado
• German: Disneyfizierung f

See also

• McDonaldization

Further reading

• Disneyfication on Wikipedia.Wikipedia