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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462172803321

Autore

Tzanelli Rodanthi <1974-, >

Titolo

Cosmopolitan memory in Europe's 'backwaters' : rethinking civility / / Rodanthi Tzanelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-74159-3

0-203-81921-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Disciplina

949.5

Soggetti

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)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



sold globally by Western industries such as tourism and film. Tzanelli argues