Public places, private journeys : ethnography, entertainment, and the tourist gaze / Ellen Strain.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: x, 313 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0813531861
- 9780813531861
- 081353187X
- 9780813531878
- 306.48 21
- G155.A1 S669 2003
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.48 STR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Issued | 29/09/2024 | A259261B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index.
Introduction: The Filtering Eye of the Tourist -- 1. Defining the Tourist Gaze -- 2. Touristic Births: Placing the Tourist -- 3. Technological Identification: Stereography and the Panama Canal -- 4. Moving Postcards: The Politics of Mobility and Stasis in Early Cinema -- 5. Jules Verne: Travel and Adaptation -- 6. Snapshots of Greece: Never on Sunday and the Politics of Touristic Narrative -- 7. Corporeal Geographies: E. M. Forster on Film -- 8. Global Mappings: Michael Crichton's Postmodern Travels -- 9. Millennium: Tourist Stand-ins and Hyphenated Anthropologists -- 10. Narrativizing Cybertravel: CD-ROM Travel Games -- 11. Virtual Reality and the Challenges of Reembodied Tourism.
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