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    Places of the Imagination: Media, Tourism, Culture

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    ISBN: 9781409419778
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    AuthorReijnders, Stijn
    Pub Date10/06/2011
    BindingHardback
    Pages174
    Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
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    The years have seen an explosive growth in the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular novels, films or television series. This title presents an analysis of this form of media tourism, exploring the question of how best to explain the increasing popularity of media tourism within contemporary culture.

    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.