The theme park

Hey, Mickey, whistle on this

Bibliographic Data

ID2166033
AuthorsBrown (0000-0002-7084-9726, Ulster University Business School, Ulster University, Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, UK), Stephen Brown (0000-0002-8508-8667, University of Ulster, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume21
Issue2
Pages178-186
Publication date2018-03-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueConsumption Markets & Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1025-3866 • E-ISSN: 1477-223X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10253866.2016.1222522
OpenAlexW2511640291
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited19

The theme park, some say, is the quintessence of consumer society and roller-coasters, others maintain, are its foremost symbol and signifier. True or not, exaggerated or otherwise, there is no doubting theme parks’ iconicity – Disneyland above all – nor their continuing ability to “amuse the million”, academicians among them. Although the scholarly literature on theming in general and Disney in particular is nothing less than prodigious, it misses much of what makes the icon iconic. Extrapolating from ample personal experience of the often meretricious theme machine, the present essay strives to set the record straight

Advertising · Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Business · Epistemology · Icon · Iconicity · Linguistics · Nothing · Sociology · Symbol (formal · Theme (computing · Theme park · Tourism · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · History · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy

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