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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958874203321

Autore

Crumbaugh Justin

Titolo

Destination dictatorship : the spectacle of Spain's tourist boom and the reinvention of difference / / Justin Crumbaugh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : SUNY Press, c2009

ISBN

9781438426891

1438426895

9781441629708

144162970X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

Disciplina

338.4/79146

Soggetti

Tourism - Spain

Tourism - Political aspects - Spain

Tourism - Government policy - Spain

Culture and tourism - Spain

Fascism - Spain - History

Motion pictures - Study and teaching

Spain Social conditions

Spain Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prosperity and freedom under Franco : the grand invention of tourism -- On the public persona and political theory of a minister of information and tourism : Manuel Fraga Iribarne's "pedagogy of leisure" -- The power of inauthenticity : the "Spain is different" tourism campaign as a change of paradigm -- Blondes in bikinis and beachside Don Juans : from the comedy of sex tourism to a state of perversion -- Epilogue : Tourism, nostalgia, and historical memory.

Sommario/riassunto

When the right-wing military dictatorship of Francisco Franco decided in 1959 to devalue the Spanish currency and liberalize the economy, the country's already steadily growing tourist industry suddenly ballooned to astounding proportions. Throughout the 1960s, glossy images of high-rise hotels, crowded beaches, and blondes in bikinis



flooded public space in Spain as the Franco regime showcased its success. In Destination Dictatorship, Justin Crumbaugh argues that the spectacle of the tourist boom took on a sociopolitical life of its own, allowing the Franco regime to change in radical and profound ways, to symbolize those changes in a self-serving way, and to mobilize new reactionary social logics that might square with the structural and cultural transformations that came with economic liberalization. Crumbaugh's illuminating analysis of the representation of tourism in Spanish commercial cinema, newsreels, political essays, and other cultural products overturns dominant assumptions about both the local impact of tourism development and the Franco regime's final years.