ABSTRACT
From Disneyland to Le Parc Disney, from Las Vegas to the Tivoli Gardens, scholars have been consumed conceptually by “conspicuous consumption,” particularly in the context of postmodernism, hyperreality, and hedonism. Recently, the Disney/Vegas phenomenon has expanded exponentially, and space and place seem to have become more relevant to consumers, marketers, and intellectuals. In this context, we and the other authors represented in this book seek to understand the “rise of retroscapes,” where the sense of place is “reanimated . . . through evocations of times past” (Brown 2001).
