Themed Space Locating Culture, Nation, and Self

"Georges Bataille once wrote that people need the strange, and now you too can get your fix of it at Dollywood or Dracula World, at a Star Trek dentist office or toilet-themed restaurant, at the Hawg Heaven Biker Bar, or at any number of Japanese love hotels. Here are fifteen anthropological studies of the theming, scheming, stimulating simulation of today's Vegasified consumerism. The subject matter of this audacious collection will be appalling to some and enthralling to others, but the book is riveting reading, for it is, after all, about all of us."Lukas, Scott A. is the author of 'Themed Space Locating Culture, Nation, and Self', published 2007 under ISBN 9780739121412 and ISBN 0739121413.