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Amsterdam's Red Light District
Amsterdam’s Red Light District
Author_Stijn Reijnders
Bond Fans
Bond Tourism
Bran Castle
Casino Royale
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Count Dracula
cultural landscapes
dracula
Dracula Fans
Dracula Tours
empirical research on media tourism
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fan pilgrimage
Henning Mankell
James Bond
James Bond Fans
James Bond Films
Legend Tripping
Majesty's Secret Service
Majesty’s Secret Service
media geography
Media Pilgrimages
Media Tourism
narrative space theory
qualitative fieldwork
Social Reproduction
Stijn Reijnders
Television Detective
Television Detective Series
television detective studies
Television Detective Tours
Tv Detective
Tv Series
Vice Versa
Vlad Dracula
Product details
- ISBN 9781409419778
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular novels, films or television series. Places of the Imagination presents a timely and insightful analysis of this form of media tourism, exploring the question of how best to explain the increasing popularity of media tourism within contemporary culture. Drawing on extensive empirical and interview material, this book examines the representation of landscapes in popular narratives that have inspired media tourism, whilst also investigating the effects over time of such tourism on local landscapes, and the processes by which tourists appropriate the landscape, experiencing and accommodating them into their imagination. Oriented around three central case studies of popular television detective shows, famous films and classic literature, Places of the Imagination develops a new theoretical understanding of media tourism. As such, it will appeal to sociologists and cultural geographers, as well as those working in the fields of media and cultural studies, popular and fan culture, tourism and the sociology of leisure.
Stijn Reijnders is Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
