On the Noose at Knott's Scary Farm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10193231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Stang (American Studies and Film & Media Studies Yale University New Haven Connecticut USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 300-307 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Popular Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3840 • E-ISSN: 1540-5931 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jpcu.70027 |
| OpenAlex | W4414413201 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
This essay traces the evolution of Knott's Scary Farm, a popular Halloween attraction run by Knott's Berry Farm in Orange County, California. As the first large‐scale Halloween attraction in the United States, Scary Farm has been a leader in the growing commercialization of Halloween, recording the holiday's national and regional inflections over the last five decades. In examining Knott's Berry Farm's engagements with the Republican Party, Evangelical Christianity, and community policing, this essay argues that a series of mock executions that take place at Scary Farm reveal essential connections between Halloween and American conservatism
Attraction · Berry · Commercialization · Orange (colour · French Urban and Social Studies · Political Economy and Marxism
Crabgrass Frontier
Ghostly Matters
Religion of Fear
Executing Freedom
The Death Penalty in America
The Silent Majority
Lynching and Spectacle
Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940
Nostalgia for the Old West in Knott's Berry Farm, Orange County, California
Signaling Through the Flames
Estimates of the Deterrent Effect of Alternative Execution Methods in the United States
God Versus Party
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |