All 12 Uses of

theme
in
Fast Food Nation

A coffee shop chain with a Scottish theme also never found its niche.
p. 24.7

theme = unifying idea

Walt Disney sent Kroc a cordial reply and forwarded his proposal to an executive in charge of the theme park's concessions.
p. 35.8

theme park = an amusement park with one or more basic underlying ideas -- such as the "Magic Kingdom" of Disneyworld

Disney's passion for science found expression in "Tomorrowland," the name given to a section of his theme park and to segments of his weekly television show.
p. 38.6

His first television series, Disneyland (1954), provided weekly updates on the construction work at his theme park.
p. 40.6 *

Instead of investing in a large theme park, the company pursued a more decentralized approach.
p. 42.2

It's about their theme parks, their next movie, their characters, their videos ….
p. 49.5

theme parks = amusement parks each of which have one or more basic underlying ideas -- such as the "Magic Kingdom" of Disneyworld

McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks.
p. 49.6

As the loudspeakers play the theme song from Chariots of Fire, Lowe wheels Christopher Reeve onstage.
p. 106.9 *

theme = music associated with a film

The training school for Disney's theme-park employees was named Disneyland University.†
p. 33.5

AT THE THIRTY-EIGHTH Annual Multi-Unit Foodserver Operators Conference held a few years ago in Los Angeles, the theme was "People: The Single Point of Difference."†
p. 87.5

It was decorated in a Wild West theme, with paper place mats featuring a wanted poster of "Butch Essidie."†
p. 233.9

Definitions:

(1) (theme as in: theme of the novel)
a basic idea that underlies what is being said or done -- especially in a literary or artistic work
(2) (theme as in: musical theme)
the initial or primary melody of a musical composition

or

(as in "theme song") music that is most repeated in a film, television series, or other theatrical production
(3) (theme as in: wrote a 2-page theme on my summer)
an essay written by a student

(This sense of theme is much rarer in recent decades than in the past.)