Bibframe Work

The themed space: locating culture, nation, and self / Scott A. Lukas

Theming as authenticity torque: Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, and authentic feeling in the Smoky Mountains / Melissa Jane Hardie

Luna Park's FantasyWorld and Dreamland's White City: fire spectacles at Coney Island as elemental performativity / Lynn Sally

From downtown to theme town: reinventing America's smaller historic retail districts / Thomas W. Paradis

Theming as a sensory phenomenon: discovering the senses on the Las Vegas Strip / Scott A. Lukas

Theming as nation

The landscape of power: imagineering consumer behavior at China's theme parks / Hai Ren

Theming mythical Africa at the Lost City / Jeanne van Eeden

Leisure space: thematic style and cultural exclusion in Casablanca / Bahíyyih Maroon

Theming as person

"Above us only sky": themes, simulations, and Liverpool John Lennon Airport / Peter Adey

Love hotels: sex and the rhetoric of themed spaces / Derek Foster

How the theme park gets its power: lived theming, social control, and the themedworker self / Scott A. Lukas

Theming as mind

Behind-the-scenes spaces: promoting production in a landscape of consumption / Ann Brigham

The experience of a lifestyle / Brian Lonsway

Contents

Themed environments and virtual spaces: video games, violent play, and digital enemies / Talmadge Wright

A politics of reverence and irreverence: social discourse on theming controversies

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