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The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation and Self is the first edited collection focused on the subject of the themed space. Twelve authors address a range of themed spaces, including restaurants, casinos, theme parks and other spaces like airports and virtual reality ones. The text is organized into four sectionstheming as authenticity, theming as nation, theming as person and theming as mind.
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Scott A. Lukas is a professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Lake Tahoe College.
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Georges Bataille once wrote that people need the strange, and now you too can get your fix of it at Dollywood or Dracula World, a Star Trek dentist office or toilet-themed restaurant, the Hawg Heaven Biker Bar or any number of Japanese love hotels. Here are fifteen anthropological studies of the theming, scheming, stimulating simulation of today's Vegasified consumerism. The subject matter of this audacious collection will be appalling to some and enthralling to others; but the book is riveting reading, for it is, after all, all about all of us. (Allen F. Roberts, Department of World Arts and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles)
Theoretically rich and richly demonstrated by appropriate case studies...the ideas are great! Highly recommended. (CHOICE)
After decades of cultural studies work on themed parks,I was surprised to be so moved by the freshness and originality of this collection, while being impressed with the depth of insight and careful review of a whole generation of literature that it offers. I have long been impressed by the quirky originality of Scott Lukas's thought which has left an impressive guiding mark on this volume of new talent in cultural analysis. (George E. Marcus, coeditor of Writing Culture)
Theoretically rich and richly demonstrated by appropriate case studies...the ideas are great! Highly recommended. (CHOICE)
After decades of cultural studies work on themed parks,I was surprised to be so moved by the freshness and originality of this collection, while being impressed with the depth of insight and careful review of a whole generation of literature that it offers. I have long been impressed by the quirky originality of Scott Lukas's thought which has left an impressive guiding mark on this volume of new talent in cultural analysis. (George E. Marcus, coeditor of Writing Culture)
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- PublisherLexington Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0739121421
- ISBN 13 9780739121429
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages346
- EditorLukas Scott A.
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