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Title Travel and representation / edited by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 239 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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
Form Electronic book
Author Lean, Garth, editor, contributor.
Staiff, Russell, editor, contributor
Waterton, Emma, editor, contributor.
LC no. 2017026078
ISBN 9781785336034
1785336037