THEA 3331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Royal Ontario Museum, Theatricality, Liminality
Document Summary
To satisfy tourism, performances have been found, redesigned and reinvented. How people build a certain image to present to other cities. Economic revitalization: some sites become preserved, whereas others become abandoned, some purpose is to generate money, political, and cultural goals. In this process of amplification and suppression, buildings, cities and entire countries have been remapped by tourism initiatives to serve political cultural, economic, and scholarly goals (lasansky 2004, 1). A site is where a process of mediation takes place. Mediation between globalization, economic, cultural, political and aesthetic mediations. Alternate readings of the city, region, and entire country: the built environment moves away from past conflict, a peaceful destination. A force and process through which sites are experienced and as a shaping cultural force which has reinterpreted those sites. Discoursive spaces, these frame the city, region and country as a cultural creative spectacle that can be consumed and experienced in different ways by different people.
