Tourist Productions 2007

The notion(s) of performance that might be useful for analyzing such animal displays brings up front politics of animal as in performance the audience, and performer politics are well thought. In chapter 5, Davis expresses how people have to keep up the beat of their work in an enthusiastic way. How is this required from the animals? How do they keep up the beat of 4 to 6 show per day? This as in performances brings questions related to politics and the importance of the profit over the human condition, as well as the animals. The corporation having need to control the process of the experience in the Theme Park such as Sea World enables a series of extraordinary need from those involved. Lower east Tenement Museum represents a different interest from Sea World’s as far as they are plan in different scale and with different mission in and out the corporation. Both as interested in continuing different types of educational and entertainment project as they are constantly challenge by the tourists that brings new ideas to be incorporated. Davis shows Sea World as a corporation interested in updating their approaches to their visitors in order to increase their profits, but Tenement Museum show an interest in maintaining history to be shared from generation to generation. They have as much things that differentiates from each other as they have several things in common.