The Media and the Tourist Imagination: Converging Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780415326261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 252 str.

David Crouch; Rhona Jackson; Felix Thompson

Opis

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 both play a major role in creating our map of national and international cultures. The Media and the Tourist Imagination adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant. The contributions are divided between those written from media studies awareness, concerned with the way the media imagine travel and tourism; those written from the point of view of the study of tourism, which consider how tourism practices are affected or inflected by the media, and those that attempt a direct comparison between the practices of tourism and the media. A number of common themes and concerns arise with particular emphasis upon the image as the object of consumption. collection is also concerned to mark out their different approaches to the structuring and organizin of experience and the way in which this leads to a dynamic interchange between them. Tourism and the media are discussed as separate processes through which identity is constructed in relation to space and place.

Recenzje

'A ground-breaking collection that that brings forth new ideas for the critical analysis of the interface between tourism and media studies.'

- Dr Kevin Hannam, University of Sunderland

'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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.