ISBN:
1785336037
,
9781785336034
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 239 pages)
,
illustrations, map
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Travel and representation
DDC:
306.4/819
Keywords:
Tourism Anthropological aspects
;
Travel Social aspects
;
Travel Psychological aspects
;
Human geography
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Human geography
;
Tourism ; Anthropological aspects
;
Travel ; Psychological aspects
;
Travel ; Social aspects
Abstract:
Introduction : Travel and representation : Past, present, future / Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton and Garth Lean -- 1. Repeating visions : Hitchcock's Vertigo and San Francisco / Gemma Blackwood -- 2. Curious images from Northwest China : Ethics and poetics in Carolyn Drake's travel photography / Darren Byler -- 3. Astronauts and avatars : Travels between the physical, the virtual and the imagined / Denise Doyle -- 4. Finitude before finitude : The case of Rousseau-Bougainville-Diderot / Benoit Dillet -- 5. Bernhard Smith and imagining the Pacific : The art/poetics of 'discovery' and the art/poetics of writing about early European travellers in the South Pacific / Russell Staiff -- 6. Searching for the spirit of bluegrass / Cynthia J. Miller -- 7. The transient gaze : Perambulist somnambulist (sensual, sonic and aural photographic narratives) / Peter Day -- 8. Snapshot photography and a gendered poetics of the beach, 1900s-1920s / Nicola Goc -- 9. Mediating mythic origins and lived localities : Connecting and distancing on roots/homeland tours / Jillian L. Powers -- 10. Road trip through the heartland : Television advertisements and the Australian domestic traveller / Christopher Drew.
Abstract:
This is a timely volume of essays that explores and re-examines the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical work that recognizes the limits of representation, things that lie outside of representation and the continuing power of representation. The emphasis is on the myriad ways travelers/scholars employ representation in their writing/analyses as they re-think the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and the future
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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