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Public places, private journeys : ethnography, entertainment, and the tourist gaze / Ellen Strain.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: x, 313 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813531861
  • 9780813531861
  • 081353187X
  • 9780813531878
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.48 21
LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 S669 2003
Contents:
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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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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