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Tzanelli Rodanthi <1974-, > |
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Cosmopolitan memory in Europe's 'backwaters' : rethinking civility / / Rodanthi Tzanelli |
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Milton Park, Abingdon : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-74159-3 |
0-203-81921-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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National characteristics, Greek |
Culture and tourism - Greece |
Tourism - Social aspects - Greece |
Motion pictures - Social aspects |
Culture in motion pictures |
Electronic books. |
Skiathos Island (Greece) |
Skopelos Island (Greece) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe's 'Backwaters'; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; 1. Ethnographic fiction and autobiographical 'truth'; 2. Orientalist vision and the carnivalesque of'revelations'; 3. Foreground to background: from locality to 'nation'; 4. 'The winner takes it all': the coming of secondmodernity; 5. The Original Theft (and other treacherousreligiosities); 6. Leviathan revealed; Bibliography; Index |
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Cosmpolitan Memory in Europe's 'Backwaters' reconsiders the definitional relationships of 'national character' and 'national heritage' in the context of Western industrial modernity. Taking as a case study the Greek islands of Skiathos and Skopelos which served as cinematic locations for the blockbuster Mamma Mia! (2008), the book explores how national identity - once shaped by political, cultural and religious practices - can now be reduced to little more than an ideal, created and |
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