The media and the tourist imagination : converging cultures /
edited by David Crouch, Rhona Jackson, and Felix Thompson.
- 1st ed.
- London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2005.
- xiv, 235 pages ; 24 cm.
- Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 7 .
- Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 7. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The media and the tourist imagination -- Mediating Tourism: Analysing the Caribbean Holiday Experience in the UK National Press -- Media Makes Mardi Gras Tourism Mecca -- Amber Films, documentary and encounters -- 'On the Actual Street' -- Screaming at The Moptops: Convergences between tourism and popular music -- 'Troubles Tourism': The Terrorism Theme Park on and off Screen -- Mediating William Wallace: Audio-visual technologies in tourism -- Mobile viewers: Media producers and the -- 'I was here': Pixilated Evidence -- 'I'm Only Here For The Beer': Post-Tourism and the Recycling of French Heritage Films -- 'We're Not Here to Make a Film about Italy, we are here to Make a Film about ME ... ': British Television Holiday Programmes representations of the Tourist Destination -- Tourism and Television viewers: Some Similarities -- Converging cultures; converging gazes; contextualizing perspectives -- Producing America: Redefining post-tourism in the global media age -- Journeying in the Third world: From third Cinema to Tourist Cinema?. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
Tourism studies and media studies both address key issues about how we perceive the world. They raise acute questions about how we relate local knowledge and immediate experience to wider global processes, and they both play a major role in creating our map of national and international cultures. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant. A number of common themes and concerns arise, and the contributions included are divided between those: written from media studies awareness perspective, concerned with the way the media imagines travel and tourism written from the point of view of the study of tourism, considering how tourism practices are affected or altered by the media that attempt a direct comparison between the practices of tourism and the media. Incorporating case study material from England, the Caribbean, Australia, the US, France and Switzerland, this significant text, ideal for students of culture, media and tourism studies, discusses tourism and the media as separate processes through which identity is constructed in relation to space and place.