Cinematic Tourist - Explorations in Globalization, Culture and Resistance

Informationen zum Autor Rodanthi Tzanelli Klappentext Recent years have seen a radical transformation of conventional tourist marketing and experience. The use of exotic locations in Hollywood films has allowed global audiences to enjoy distant places. Simultaneously, Hollywood screening of potential 'tourist paradises' has generated new tourist industries around the world. This book takes a closer look at this new phenomenon of 'cinematic tourism', combining theory with case studies drawn from four continents: America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. The author explores audiences' perceptions of film and their covert relationship with tourist advertising campaigns, alongside the nature of newly-born tourist industries and the reaction of native populations and nation-states faced with the commodification of their histories, identities and environments. Zusammenfassung This book takes a closer look at the phenomenon of 'cinematic tourism', exploring audiences' perceptions of film and their covert relationship with tourist advertizing campaigns, alongside the nature of, and resistance to, newly-born tourist industries. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The World of Signs: Production as Consumption/Consumption as Production  2. Pitfalls of the 'Tourist Gaze': Ecotourist Dialogues and the Politics of Global Resistance  3. 'National Elf Services': Organized Capitalism as Resistance  4. Corelli Goes to Hollywood: Crypto-Colonial Histories and Local Resistance  5. 'Welcome to the Land of Salsa': Lifestyle and the Curse of Orientalism  6. Farewell to Authenticity? Capitalist/Cultural Hegemony and the Structure of Resistance

Product details

• Authors: Rodanthi Tzanelli
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2007
• EAN: 9780415394130
• ISBN: 978-0-415-39413-0
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: International Library of Sociology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; History, Media Studies, TRAVEL / General, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities, Sports & outdoor recreation, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Tourism industry, Retail and wholesale industries, Sports and Active outdoor recreation