Media, Place and Tourism Worlds of Imagination

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.