The Media and the Tourist Imagination: Converging Cultures

by Crouch,David; Crouch,David

• ISBN13: 9780415326261
• ISBN10: 0415326265
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Media and the Tourist Imaginationadopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore the interactions between tourism and media practices within a contemporary culture in which the consumption of images has become increasingly significant. The contributions are divided between those written from media studies awareness, concerned with the way the media imagine travel and tourism; those written from the point of view of the study of tourism, which consider how tourism practices are affected or inflected by the media; and those that attempt a direct comparison between the practices of tourism and the media. A number of common themes and concerns arise with particular emphasis upon the image as the object of consumption.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
List of contributors	xi
Introduction: the media and the tourist imagination	1	(13)
David Crouch
Rhona Jackson
Felix Thompson
Mediating Tourism: An analysis of the Caribbean holiday experience in the UK national press	14	(13)
Marcella Daye
Media Makes Mardi Gras Tourism Mecca	27	(15)
Gary Best
Amber Films, documentary and encounters	42	(18)
David Crouch
Richard Grassick
On the Actual Street	60	(16)
Nick Couldry
Screaming at The Moptops: convergences between tourism and popular music	76	(16)
Sara Cohen
`Troubles Tourism': the terrorism theme park on and off screen	92	(13)
K. J. Donnelly
Mediating William Wallace: Audio-visual technologies in tourism	105	(14)
Tim Edensor
Mobile viewers: media producers and the televisual tourist	119	(16)
Robert Fish
`I was here': pixilated evidence	135	(8)
Claudia Bell
John Lyall
`I'm only here for the beer': post-tourism and the recycling of French heritage films	143	(11)
Phil Powrie
`We are not here to make a film about Italy, we are here to make a film about ME...'	154	(16)
David Dunn
Tourists and television viewers: some similarities	170	(13)
Solange Davin
Converging cultures; converging gazes; contextualizing perspectives	183	(15)
Rhona Jackson
Producing America: redefining post-tourism in the global media age	198	(17)
Neil Campbell
Journeying in the Third World: From Third Cinema to Tourist Cinema?	215	(15)
Felix Thompson
Index	230