1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003842840403321

Autore

Anderson, Benedict <1936- >

Titolo

The spectre of comparisons : nationalism, southeast Asia, and the world / Benedict Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Verso, 1998

ISBN

1-85984-184-8

Descrizione fisica

x, 374 p. ; 23 cm

Disciplina

320.959

Locazione

BFS

Collocazione

320.959 AND 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910493662603321

Titolo

Europe at the seaside [[electronic resource] ] : the economic history of mass tourism in the Mediterranean / / edited by Luciano Segreto, Carles Manera, and Manfred Pohl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-62770-8

9786612627705

1-84545-911-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SegretoLuciano

ManeraCarles <1957->

PohlManfred <1944->

Disciplina

338.4791091822

Soggetti

Tourism - Mediterranean Region - History

Package tours - Mediterranean Region - History

Cruise lines - Mediterranean Region - History

Seaside resorts - Mediterranean Region - History

Electronic books.



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 (p. 236-243) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Flying visits : the growth of British air package tours, 1945-1975 / Peter Lyth -- The transformation of the economic model of the Balearic Islands : the pioneers of mass tourism / Carles Manera and Jaume Garau-Taberner -- Tourism and business during the twentieth century in Greece : continuity and change / Margarita Dritsas -- The development of the Portuguese hotel business, 1950-1995 / Benedita Câmara -- Sending the Italians on vacation : the Alpitour group / Luciano Segreto -- Rimini : an original mix of Italian style and foreign models? / Patrizia Battilani -- The expansion strategies of the Majorcan hotel chains / Antoni Serra -- The French group Accor and tourism since 1967 : business tourism without a mass tourism strategy / Hubert Bonin -- Club Méditerranée, 1950-2002 / Ellen Furlough -- Tourism on the French Riviera / Philippe Mioche -- Tourism on the Costa del Sol / Carmelo Pellejero Martínez.

Sommario/riassunto

Mass tourism is one of the most striking developments in postwar western societies, involving economic, social, cultural, and anthropological factors. For many countries it has become a significant, if not the primary, source of income for the resident population. The Mediterranean basin, which has long been a very popular destination, is explored here in the first study to scrutinize the region as a whole and over a long period of time. In particular, it investigates the area's economic and social networks directly involved in tourism, which includes examining the most popular spots that attr



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783317603321

Autore

Stewart Jacqueline Najuma <1970->

Titolo

Migrating to the movies [[electronic resource] ] : cinema and Black urban modernity / / Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

1-59734-750-7

1-282-76265-6

9786612762659

0-520-93640-X

1-4175-8514-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies

Disciplina

791.43/652996073

Soggetti

African Americans in the motion picture industry

African Americans in motion pictures

Motion picture audiences - United States

African Americans - Migrations - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1999.

"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. [ii].

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-325) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Nigger in the Woodpile, or Black (In)Visibility in Film History -- 1. "To Misrepresent a Helpless Race": The Black Image Problem -- 2. Mixed Colors: Riddles of Blackness in Preclassical Cinema -- 3. "Negroes Laughing at Themselves"? Black Spectatorship and the Performance of Urban Modernity -- 4. "Some Thing to See Up Here All the Time": Moviegoing and Black Urban Leisure in Chicago -- 5. Along the "Stroll": Chicago's Black Belt Movie Theaters -- 6. Reckless Rovers versus Ambitious Negroes: Migration, Patriotism, and the Politics of Genre in Early African American Filmmaking -- 7. "We Were Never Immigrants": Oscar Micheaux and the Reconstruction of Black American Identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around



the turn of the last century coincided with the migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South to the urban "land of hope" in the North. This richly illustrated book, discussing many early films and illuminating black urban life in this period, is the first detailed look at the numerous early relationships between African Americans and cinema. It investigates African American migrations onto the screen, into the audience, and behind the camera, showing that African American urban populations and cinema shaped each other in powerful ways. Focusing on Black film culture in Chicago during the silent era, Migrating to the Movies begins with the earliest cinematic representations of African Americans and concludes with the silent films of Oscar Micheaux and other early "race films" made for Black audiences, discussing some of the extraordinary ways in which African Americans staked their claim in cinema's development as an art and a cultural institution.