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The Media and the Tourist Imagination Converging Cultures
252 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
250 Pages
3 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global processes, and they both play a major role in creating our map of national and international cultures.
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the interactions between tourism and... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Mediating Tourism: Analysing the Caribbean Holiday Experience in the UK National Press 3. Media Makes Mardi Gras Tourism Mecca 4. Inter/Intra-Textual Ruralities and the Televisual Tourist 5. Amber Films and Documentary: The Validity of Visual Representation 6. 'On the Actual Street' 7. Tourism, Popular Music and the Media 8. 'Troubles Tourism': The Terrorism Theme Park on and off Screen 9. Screening Stirling 10. 'I was here': Pixilated Evidence 11. 'I'm Only Here For The Beer': Post-Tourism and the Recycling of French Heritage Films 12. 'We're Not Here to Make a Film about Italy, We're Here to Make a Film about ME...': Changing Conventions in British Television Holiday Programmes 13. Tourism and Television: Some Similarities 14. Culture Industry; Culture Clash; Identity Crisis 15. Journeying in The Third World: From Third Cinema to Tourist Cinema 16. Discovering America?: Experiencing the USA in the UK
Biography
David Crouch is Professor of Cultural Geography, Tourism and Leisure, and Rhona Jackson and Felix Thompson are Lecturers in Film and Television Studies at The University of Derby.
'A ground-breaking collection that brings forth new ideas for the critical analysis of the interface between tourism and media studies.' - Kevin Hannam, University of Sunderland, UK
'This thought-provoking volume diversely maps the overlapping contours of the real and imaginary domains of tourism and media, and the complex landscapes we navigate on journeys through screens, sounds and scenery.' - Mark Neumann, University of South Florida, USA
