Blackfish-ing for Buzz: The Rhetoric of the Real in Theme Parks and Documentary
In 2014, a year of record tourism in the state of Florida, SeaWorld saw a drop of one million visitors to its theme park in Orlando. The decline followed Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 documentary film Blackfish, which presented the circumstances of orcas, or “killer whales,” held in captivity at par...
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ftrollinscollege:oai:scholarship.rollins.edu:as_facpub-1243 2023-05-15T17:53:47+02:00 Blackfish-ing for Buzz: The Rhetoric of the Real in Theme Parks and Documentary Schoen, Steven W. 2016-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarship.rollins.edu/as_facpub/137 https://scholarship.rollins.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1243&context=as_facpub unknown Rollins Scholarship Online https://scholarship.rollins.edu/as_facpub/137 https://scholarship.rollins.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1243&context=as_facpub Faculty Publications Florida theme park tourism rhetoric discourse film documentaries marketing Arts and Humanities Film and Media Studies Other Film and Media Studies Other Rhetoric and Composition Rhetoric and Composition text 2016 ftrollinscollege 2022-12-19T18:19:36Z In 2014, a year of record tourism in the state of Florida, SeaWorld saw a drop of one million visitors to its theme park in Orlando. The decline followed Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 documentary film Blackfish, which presented the circumstances of orcas, or “killer whales,” held in captivity at parks like SeaWorld as cruel to the animals and dangerous to their trainers. In 2016, SeaWorld announced it will stop breeding orcas, and phase out its orca theatrical shows by 2019, a move widely attributed in the press to the impact of Cowperthwaite’s film. This article examines the film Blackfish as a rhetorical alignment of the symbolic functions of theme parks and documentaries, analyzing the work of the film’s discourse to influence audiences and challenge to SeaWorld’s use of captive orcas to entertain tourists. Text Orca Rollins College: Rollins Scholarship Online (RSO) |
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In 2014, a year of record tourism in the state of Florida, SeaWorld saw a drop of one million visitors to its theme park in Orlando. The decline followed Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 documentary film Blackfish, which presented the circumstances of orcas, or “killer whales,” held in captivity at parks like SeaWorld as cruel to the animals and dangerous to their trainers. In 2016, SeaWorld announced it will stop breeding orcas, and phase out its orca theatrical shows by 2019, a move widely attributed in the press to the impact of Cowperthwaite’s film. This article examines the film Blackfish as a rhetorical alignment of the symbolic functions of theme parks and documentaries, analyzing the work of the film’s discourse to influence audiences and challenge to SeaWorld’s use of captive orcas to entertain tourists. |
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