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9780813531878

Public Places, Private Journeys

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  • ISBN13:

    9780813531878

  • ISBN10:

    081353187X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-07-01
  • Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

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Author Biography

Ellen Strain is an assistant professor of film and multimedia in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The Filtering Eye of the Tourist 1(14)
PART ONE FOUNDATIONS
ONE Defining the Tourist Gaze
15(22)
TWO Touristic Births: Placing the Tourist
37(37)
THREE Technological Identification: Stereography and the Panama Canal
74(31)
PART TWO THE CINEMATIC TOURIST GAZE
FOUR Moving Postcards: The Politics of Mobility and Stasis in Early Cinema
105(19)
FIVE Jules Verne: Travel and Adaptation
124(30)
SIX Snapshots of Greece: Never on Sunday and the Politics of Touristic Narrative
154(21)
SEVEN Corporeal Geographies: E. M. Forster on Film
175(16)
EIGHT Global Mappings: Michael Crichton's Postmodern Travels
191(22)
PART THREE BEYOND FILM
NINE Millennium: Tourist Stand-ins and Hyphenated Anthropologists
213(17)
TEN Narrativizing Cybertravel: CD-ROM Travel Games
230(18)
ELEVEN Virtual Reality and the Challenges of Reembodied Tourism
248(26)
Conclusion 274(5)
Notes 279(14)
Bibliography 293(10)
Index 303

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