Recent years have seen a radical transformation of conventional tourist marketing and experience. The use of exotic locations in Hollywood films has allowed global audiences to enjoy distant places. Simultaneously, Hollywood screening of potential 'tourist paradises' has generated new tourist industries around the world. This book takes a closer look at this new phenomenon of 'cinematic tourism', combining theory with case studies drawn from four continents: America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. The author explores audiences' perceptions of film and their covert relationship with tourist...
Recent years have seen a radical transformation of conventional tourist marketing and experience. The use of exotic locations in Hollywood films has a...
This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging. The ceremonial performances supported imaginative travel and created a tornadoros: an ideal form of 'human' that manipulates audiovisual narratives of culture and identity for global audiences."
This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover to Rio 2016 as articulations of national and cosmopolitan belonging...
This book offers a provocative theorization of nationhood, focusing on the key role played by dialogic relations of hegemony, resistance and reciprocity in the birth of the modern European nation. The relationship between Greece and Britain at the end of the nineteenth centuryuncovers the linguistic construction of nationalism."
This book offers a provocative theorization of nationhood, focusing on the key role played by dialogic relations of hegemony, resistance and reciproci...
This title reconsiders definitional relationships of 'national character' and 'national heritage' in the context of Western industrial modernity. It highlights the gendered and racialised histories of this modernity, arguing that they continue to play a large role in global circulations of national heritage by creative industries.
This title reconsiders definitional relationships of 'national character' and 'national heritage' in the context of Western industrial modernity. It h...
In today s world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas. The management of risks such as terrorism, labour strikes, protests and environmental degradation has become pivotal for countries that depend on their economy s tourist sector. Indeed, there is fear that that the end of tourism might be nigh due to inadequate institutional foresight. Yet, in designing relevant policies to tackle this, arts such as that of filmmaking have yet to receive due consideration.
This book adopts an unorthodox...
In today s world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political ag...
This groundbreaking book investigates the clash between a desire for unfettered mobility and the prevalence of inequality, exploring how this generates frictions in everyday life and how it challenges the ideal of just cosmopolitanism. Reading fictional and popular cultural texts against real global contexts, it develops an 'aesthetics of justice' that does not advocate cosmopolitan mobility at the expense of care and hospitality but rather interrogates their divorce in neoliberal contexts. In this timely analysis, Rodanthi Tzanelli discusses questions of social injustice in the context of...
This groundbreaking book investigates the clash between a desire for unfettered mobility and the prevalence of inequality, exploring how this generate...
