Part One of a new series:
Theme Parks, Animatronics, and Race: Representations of non-White and non-Western Bodies in ‘Imagineered’ Spaces.
This video uses Edward Said’s Orientalism to analyze the attraction Fata Morgana at Efteling theme park, an attraction themed to the Middle East.
00:00 – Introduction
00:27 – Edward Said’s Orientalism
01:30 – Streets of Cairo at 1893 World’s Fair
03:34 – Fata Morgana at Efteling
Orientalism in the Theme Park: Edward Said and Fata Morgana, Efteling
Works Consulted
Edward Said. “On ‘Orientalism,’” Media Education Foundation (Transcript), 1998.
Eric Sandweiss, “Around the World in a Day: International Participation in the World’s Columbian Exposition,” Illinois Historical Journal 84, no. 1 (1991): 2–14.
“Fata Morgana,” Coasterpedia: https://coasterpedia.net/wiki/Fata_Morgana
“Fata Morgana,” Dark Ride Database: https://darkridedatabase.com/listing/fata-morgana/
Instructions from Ton van de Ven for the Arabic characters in the decor (Concept Art). In “Fata Morgana,” Eftepedia (translated from Dutch via Google Chrome Extension): https://www.eftepedia.nl/lemma/Fata_Morgana
Steve Nelson, “Walt Disney’s EPCOT and the World’s Fair Performance Tradition.” The Drama Review: TDR 30, no. 4 (1986): 106–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/1145786
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