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This work posits that the images in film and popular culture not only fill in the gaps of a person's first hand - or rather, lack of first-hand - experience with other cultural situations, but also predisposes the ""tourist gaze"" to view particular locales in a predetermined way.

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Introduction: The Filtering Eye of the Tourist

FOUNDATIONS
Defining the Tourist Gaze
Touristic Births: Placing the Tourist
Technological Identification: Stereography and the Panama Canal

THE CINEMATIC TOURIST GAZE
Moving Postcards: The Politics of Mobility and Stasis in Early Cinema
Jules Verne: Travel and Adaptation
Snapshots of Greece: Never on Sunday and the Politics of Touristic Narrative
Corporeal Geographies: E.M. Forster on Film
Global Mappings: Michael Crichton's Postmodern Travels

BEYOND FILM
Millennium: Tourist Stand-ins and Hyphenated Anthropologists
Narrativizing Cybertravel: CD-ROM Travel Games
Virtual Reality and the Challenges of Reembodied Tourism

Public Places Private Journeys Ethnography Entertainment and the Tourist Gaze

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 6/20/2003 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813531878, 978-0813531878
      ISBN10: 081353187X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work posits that the images in film and popular culture not only fill in the gaps of a person's first hand - or rather, lack of first-hand - experience with other cultural situations, but also predisposes the ""tourist gaze"" to view particular locales in a predetermined way.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: The Filtering Eye of the Tourist

      FOUNDATIONS
      Defining the Tourist Gaze
      Touristic Births: Placing the Tourist
      Technological Identification: Stereography and the Panama Canal

      THE CINEMATIC TOURIST GAZE
      Moving Postcards: The Politics of Mobility and Stasis in Early Cinema
      Jules Verne: Travel and Adaptation
      Snapshots of Greece: Never on Sunday and the Politics of Touristic Narrative
      Corporeal Geographies: E.M. Forster on Film
      Global Mappings: Michael Crichton's Postmodern Travels

      BEYOND FILM
      Millennium: Tourist Stand-ins and Hyphenated Anthropologists
      Narrativizing Cybertravel: CD-ROM Travel Games
      Virtual Reality and the Challenges of Reembodied Tourism

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