Strain, Ellen, 1968-

Public places, private journeys : ethnography, entertainment, and the tourist gaze / Ellen Strain. - x, 313 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-301) and index.

Introduction: The Filtering Eye of the Tourist -- Defining the Tourist Gaze -- Touristic Births: Placing the Tourist -- Technological Identification: Stereography and the Panama Canal -- Moving Postcards: The Politics of Mobility and Stasis in Early Cinema -- Jules Verne: Travel and Adaptation -- Snapshots of Greece: Never on Sunday and the Politics of Touristic Narrative -- Corporeal Geographies: E. M. Forster on Film -- Global Mappings: Michael Crichton's Postmodern Travels -- Millennium: Tourist Stand-ins and Hyphenated Anthropologists -- Narrativizing Cybertravel: CD-ROM Travel Games -- Virtual Reality and the Challenges of Reembodied Tourism. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.

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Tourism--Social aspects
Exoticism in motion pictures
Tourism and the arts

G155.A1 / S669 2003

306.48