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Media, Place and Tourism Worlds of Imagination
Accessible and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume highlights the connections between media, tourism and place, bringing together the diverse perspectives, approaches and actors involved in critical issues relating to media tourism worldwide.
This book explores new avenues, adopting a global and transnational perspective and placing emphasis on the exploration, analysis and comparison of cases from around the world. Encompassing chapters from a plethora of experts, the volume discusses processes and relationships of power involved in the development and experience of media tourism. This book seeks to broaden the horizons of both the reader and existing academic research into media tourism by including research into, among other topics, Bollywood and Nollywood films, Brazilian telenovelas and South Korean K-pop culture. Illustrated with tables and figures throughout, the volume presents insights from a variety of strands of cutting-edge and empirically rich research, which are collated, compared and contrasted to demonstrate the connections between media, tourism and place around the world.
International in scope, this book is an ideal companion for academics and scholars within a wide array of disciplines, such as media studies, tourism studies, fan studies, cultural geography and sociology, as well as those with an interest in media tourism more specifically.
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Introduction: Worlds of Imagination
Stijn Reijnders, Emiel Martens, Apoorva Nanjangud, Deborah Castro, Rosa Schiavone and Débora Póvoa
Part 1. Imagining Place in Popular Culture: Representation, Travel and Media
1. The Runaway Production of A Daughter of the Gods: Film, Tourism and Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Jamaica
Emiel Martens
2. More than just Home of Middle Earth: The History of Film Tourism in Aotearoa New Zealand
Alfio Leotta
3. Where East Becomes West: Imaginative Geographies of Eastern Europe in Popular Indian Cinema
Krzysztof Stachowiak
4. The Unfulfilled Potential of the Radio Archives: Designing a Prototype to Uncover Hidden Stories in the Landscape
Rebecca Nedregotten Strand
5. Environmental Imaginaria in the Age of Extinction: Perspectives from the “Critical Zone”
Rodanthi Tzanelli
Part 2. Visiting Places of the Imagination: Fandom, Experience and Affects
6. The Everyday Tourist: Travelling the Theater of the Mind in the Wake of Permacrisis
Christine Lundberg, Vassilios Ziakas, and Kristina N. Lindström
7. From SDCC to Globalised/Glocalised Comic-Cons: Towards the Experience Economy of Co-existential “Event Fans”
Matt Hills
8. Multi-Vocality Induced by Laid-Back Camp among Chinese Audiences
Qian Jin
9. Bollywood Tourism among the Hindustanis in the Netherlands: A Transnational Perspective
Apoorva Nanjangud and Stijn Reijnders
Part 3. Making Place in a Mediatized World: Heritage, Community and Social Change
10. Whose Homestead Is It? Little Houses on the Prairie and the Cultural Politics of White Colonial Settlement in the United States
Nancy Reagin
11. Popular Music Heritage in Ekaterinburg: From Seeking Authorisation and Nostalgia for Soviet Rock to Participatory Place-Making
Alexandra Kolesnik and Alisa Maksimova
12. Negotiating Dark and Light Magic: Witch-Themed Tourism in Harz, Germany, in a Transcultural Context
Timo Thelen
13. What About the Locals? Exploring Residents’ Interest in and Suggestions for the Development of Film Tourism in Seville, Spain
Deborah Castro
Part 4. Developing Media Tourism: Policy, Management and Strategies
14. Film Tourism in Brazil: Learning from Local Perspectives
Débora Póvoa
15. Developing and Managing Film-Related Tourism at Film Studios with the Design of Cultural and Heritage Features: The Case of Hengdian World Studios (China)
Xin Cui, Les Roberts, and Wallis Motta
16. Promoting Popular Culture (and) Tourism as National Policies: Comparing “Cool Japan” and “Korean Wave”
Kyungjae Jang and Sean Kim
17. Destination Nollywood: The Connections between Film and Tourism in Nigeria, 2012–2022
Emiel Martens and Edmund Onwuliri
Biography
Stijn Reijnders is Professor of Cultural Heritage and Vice Dean of Research at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the intersection of media, culture and tourism. Furthermore, he is co-founder of the Erasmus Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage and Tourism.
Emiel Martens is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the intersections between film, tourism and empire. Furthermore, he is co-founder of both the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (HUCOM) and the Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage and Tourism (FIHETO).
Deborah Castro is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Groningen. Her research interests lie in the fields of television and audience studies. She received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to study the local community’s reactions to film tourism in Spain.
Débora Póvoa is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research focuses on power dynamics of media production and tourism. She is a board member of the Erasmus Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage and Tourism (FIHETO) and film review editor of the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Apoorva Nanjangud is Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud Institute of Culture and History, Radboud University Nijmegen. She is a cultural sociologist, with an expertise at the intersection of the media, tourism and the creative sectors, particularly in the context of India.
Rosa Schiavone is PhD Candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her PhD project examines the production of place in film tourism in Scotland and explores the interconnections between popular culture, place and local and national heritage.
