Key Concepts in Theme Park Studies

自1955年迪士尼乐园(加利福尼亚州阿纳海姆)开放以来，主题公园已经成为一种产业、一种文化机构和一种与全球经济相关并具有广泛社会影响的媒介。主题公园的研究已经认识到它们的多层次意义已经有一段时间了，并从大量不同的学科角度研究了主题公园的几乎所有方面，它们的前身，以及类似的空间。然而，与此同时，主题公园学者很少把目光投向自己学科的边界之外，真正的跨学科讨论尚未建立，更不用说有自己的理论和方法、学术协会和出版机构的独立研究领域了。此外，主题公园的具体方面，如其时间性，才刚刚开始被学者们分析，而其他方面，如主题公园在其他媒体和艺术中的描绘，还根本没有讨论过。因此，该项目的目标是促进在主题公园方面的跨学科合作；这种合作将导致出版面向国际学术受众的“主题公园研究中的关键概念”的跨学科介绍。

Since the opening of Disneyland (Anaheim, CA) in 1955 the theme park has become an industry, a cultural institution, and a medium of global economic relevance and of broad social impact. Research on theme parks has recognized their multi-level significance for some time already and has examined virtually all aspects of theme parks, their antecedents, and similar spaces from a large variety of disciplinary perspectives. At the same time, however, theme park scholars have rarely looked beyond the borders of their own disciplines and genuinely transdisciplinary discussions have not yet been established, let alone an independent field of research with its own theories and methods, scholarly associations, and publication organs. Moreover, specific aspects of theme parks, such as their temporality, have only just begun to be analyzed by scholars, while others, such as the depiction of theme parks in other media and in the arts, have not yet been discussed at all. The goal of this project is therefore to foster collaboration on theme parks across disciplinary borders; this collaboration will result in the publication of a transdisciplinary introduction to „Key Concepts in Theme Park Studies“, geared at an international scholarly audience.