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American Adult Pornography Consumers’ Beliefs and Behaviors Related to Pornography Studios Mistreating Their Performers
Previous research provided limited information regarding pornography consumers’ beliefs and behaviors related to pornography studios mistreating...
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Centrality and Power in Urban Networks of Music Production: Exploring Relational Geographies in the German Music Market
Popular music emerges in production networks, in which various highly specialized actors such as producers, engineers, and artists interact....
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Lessons Learned from Refugee Camps: From Fetishizing Design to Researching, Drawing, and Co-Producing
This chapter explores cases when a design-oriented approach can be harmful, especially if it shifts the attention from refugees’ needs and complex...
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Industry: Global Trends, Players, and Networks in the Theme Park Industry
The theme park industry is expanding worldwide, merging with other entertainment and attractions firms, and diversifying toward other areas of...
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Attractions: How Rides, Retail, Dining, and Entertainment Structure the Theme Park
Attractions in theme parks are not just rides, but also include entertainment, retail, and food. This chapter traces the etymology of the term and...
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Antecedents, Origins, and Developments: A History of Theme Parks from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
The history of theme parks is usually said to have begun in 1955 with the opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, California. While it is true that...
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Media and Mediality in Theme Parks
This chapter focuses on two different aspects of theme parks as media phenomena: their plurimediality, a characteristic they inherited from virtually...
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The Performing Arts Ecosystem in Abu Dhabi: Sustainability, Resilience, and Local Capacity Building
Cultural and creative ecosystems have increasingly become a focus for cultural policy and a central concept in social research. Ecological approaches...
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The Development of Contemporary Art in Nigeria
Nigeria is a federation of 36 states with over 900,000 square kilometres. According to the World Bank, it has a rapidly growing population of about...
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The Recording Industry as the Enemy? A Case Study of Early West German Metal Music
Rock and metal music have a complex relationship with the entertainment industries. They rely on commodified products but are also cautious towards...
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The Bigger Picture: Coronavirus in the Context of the History of the American Film Industry
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, many commentators on American life predicted that people “would never” be able to do a variety of...
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Visitors: The Roles of Guests as Customers, Pilgrims, Fans, Performers, and Bodies in the Theme Park
This chapter discusses the significance of visitors and customers in the theme park industry. The chapter begins with a discussion of the concept of...
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Visualising Medical Knowledge: Photographing Patients in Twentieth-Century Cape Town
This chapter outlines how historical clinical photographs produced in South Africa are shaped by the politics of knowledge surrounding medicine,...
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Bristol’s Film and Television Industries: An Incremental Ecosystem
This chapter explores the growth and characteristics of Bristol’s screen industries, which consist principally of television production companies and...
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Enhancing urban waterfront development: a groundbreaking framework for fostering creativity
Throughout history, cities have evolved to meet changing needs. A city transforms, as do living organisms, as their needs and requirements change....
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Paratexts and Reception: Images of Theme Parks in Art, Popular Culture, and Discourse
This chapter reflects on the depiction of theme parks in various media by the theme parks themselves (“paratexts”) and by others (“reception”)—two...
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Newcastle
This chapter recounts three stories, or illustrative vignettes, from fieldwork exploring identity, postindustrial cities, and cultural work with...
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Inclusion and Exclusion: Marginalization in Theme Parks
Theme parks are highly complex spaces, and this is also true when it comes to dealing with marginalization. Far from being practiced only at their...