There's Always Tomorrowland: Disney and the Hypercinematic Experience

“Like Walking into a Movie”: Intermedial Relations between Theme Parks and Movies

“…Yet time and again critics have also argued that the design of the parks and their individual rides systematically draws on cinematic principles. These arguments, however, most often took the form of insightful but scattered remarks in texts that focused on some other topic and then only rarely—for example, in Bukatman (61–62; 75–77) and Telotte (171–82)—formed the main interest of scholarly work. Moreover, even the latter studies do not offer a systematic analysis of the relations between theme parks and movies.…”

Truth & Beauty Bombs: The personal/political/poetics of online communication in #archaeology. #PATC Keynote, April 27th 2017

“…10.3.) Like theme parks, malls also refashion both film and television. Scott Bukatman (1991) agrees with William Kowinski that "strolling through a mall is analogous to walking around inside a giant TV. One chooses from among an abundance of selections (stores equal channels), solicited by an array of colorful enticements and standardized slickness, overwhelmed by the overall electronic buzz" (67).…”

A Spectrum of Audience Interactivity for Entertainment Domains

“…Purposely designed to be isolated, theme parks invite guests to travel [29], to transport themselves to a new location. Leaving the real world at the parking lot, guests gain temporary "citizenship" to a fantasy world [17], escaping the rules and conventions of the outside world [118] for one with no clocks [24] or defined social barriers [12]. We see this model replicated in live theater.…”