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The contributors to this volume explore the themes of fear, cultural anxiety, and transformation as expressed in remade horror, science fiction, and fantasy films. While opening on a note that emphasizes the compulsion of filmmakers to revisit issues concerning fear and anxiet...

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Focusing on the subject of the themed space, this work addresses a range of themed spaces, including restaurants, casinos, theme parks and other spaces like airports and virtual reality ones. It is organized into four sections - theming as authenticity, theming as nation, theming as person and theming as mind.

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Theme parks are a uniquely interactive and enduring form of entertainment that have influenced architecture, technology and culture in surprising ways for more than a century. Taking primitive amusements of pleasure gardens as its starting point, this book offers an investigation of the evolution of the theme park over the twentieth century.