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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817203803321

Autore

Reijnders Stijn <1976-, >

Titolo

Places of the imagination : media, tourism, culture / / Stijn Reijnders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-4094-9435-7

1-317-08047-5

1-315-60062-5

1-317-08046-7

1-283-11552-2

9786613115522

1-4094-1978-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/819

Soggetti

Tourism - Social aspects

Culture and tourism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Theoretical Framework; 2 Places of the Imagination; Part I TV Detectives; 3 The Guilty Landscape of the TV Detective; 4 Doing the TV Detective Tour; Part II James Bond; 5 Media Pilgrimages into the World of James Bond; 6 On the Track of 007; Part III Dracula; 7 Stalking the Count; 8 Conclusion: The Magic of Imagining; Appendix; Filmography; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Places of the Imagination presents a timely and insightful analysis of the increasing popularity of media tourism within contemporary culture. Drawing on extensive empirical and interview material, this book examines the representation of landscapes in popular narratives that have inspired media tourism, whilst also investigating the effects over time of such tourism on local landscapes, and the processes by which tourists appropriate the landscape, experiencing and accommodating them into their imagination. Oriented around three central case studies of popular television detective shows, famo