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This book explores the geography of authenticity, investigating a wide variety of places used by tourists, but it also includes chapters on art and place, hipster places, gentrification, heritage sites and film locations. This is an essential read for those involved in the study of geography, tourism, urban studies, culture and heritage.
Sommario
Chapter 1 Introduction: Places and Authenticity, Chapter 2 Historic Cities: From Museumification to the Origin of the Spaces, Chapter 3 The restoration and Reproduction of Historic Sites: From the Ship of Theseus to mechanistic authentication, Chapter 4 Cities as stage sets: From gentrification and festival market places to hipster places, Chapter 5 Site-specific art: From magical realism and creative placemaking to simulacra, Chapter 6 The Seaside Resort: From piers and promenades to nostalgic authenticity, Chapter 7 The Rural Idyll: From cultural countryside to constructed authenticity, Chapter 8 Wilderness Regions: From national parks to existential authenticity, Chapter 9 Squaring the circle of authenticity in film and photography: From mass-reproduction to the punctum, Chapter 10 Events and places: From giant spectaculars and carnival masks to hyperreality, Chapter 11 Variations on a theme: the imagineering of fast authenticity from theme parks and museums to shopping malls
Info autore
Jane Lovell is an award-winning writer whose work has been widely published in the UK and US. She has recently won the Ginkgo Prize and the Rialto RSPB Nature & Place Award. Her essays have been published in Elementum Journal, Dark Mountain and The Clearing. Jane lives in North Devon on the edge of the Valley of Rocks.More information can be found at janelovellpoetry.co.uk.
Riassunto
This book explores the geography of authenticity, investigating a wide variety of places used by tourists, but it also includes chapters on art and place, hipster places, gentrification, heritage sites and film locations. This is an essential read for those involved in the study of geography, tourism, urban studies, culture and heritage.
