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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787345303321

Autore

Hom Stephanie Malia

Titolo

The Beautiful Country : Tourism and the Impossible State of Destination Italy / / Stephanie Malia Hom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-1756-X

1-4426-1755-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Toronto Italian Studies

Disciplina

338.479145

Soggetti

Tourism - Italy - History

Tourism - Political aspects - Italy

History

Electronic books.

Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Codes of travel : Italy's guidebook tradition -- Italian montage : on rhetoric and representations -- Destination nation : the grand tour, Thomas Cook, and the arrival of mass tourism -- Tours of duty : touring clubs, fascist agencies, and the domestic tourism industry -- Masses in transit : the new economy of tourism in the twentieth century -- Italy without borders : simulacra, simulation, and the postmodern grand tour -- Postmodern passages : souvenirs, theme parks, outlet malls, and the body of the simulated nation.

Sommario/riassunto

Using an interdisciplinary methodology that includes archival research, ethnographic fieldwork, literary criticism, and spatial analysis, The Beautiful Country reveals destination Italy's paramount role in the creation of modern mass tourism.