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

• Autore: Reijnders Stijn <1976-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (174 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4/819
• Soggetto topico: Tourism - Social aspects; Culture and tourism
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Places of the imagination
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817203803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II