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Heritage in the Digital Era
Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? ‘Heritage’ usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and so serves to reproduce national communities over time. However, media industries have the power to...
Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe's 'Backwaters'
Rethinking civility
Cosmpolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’ reconsiders the definitional relationships of ‘national character’ and ‘national heritage’ in the context of Western industrial modernity. Taking as a case study the Greek islands of Skiathos and Skopelos which served as cinematic locations for the...
Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
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The Cinematic Tourist
Explorations in Globalization, Culture and Resistance
Series: International Library of Sociology
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...
Published January 19th 2010 by Routledge