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Places of the Imagination presents a timely and insightful analysis of 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, famo
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This book focuses on film tourism: the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular film or TV series. It is based on a unique, Asian perspective, encompassing case studies from around the pan-Asian region, including China, Taiwan, India, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Singapore. By focusing emphatically on film tourism in the non-West, this book offers a timely and crucial contribution to a more comprehensive understanding of the relation between film, culture and place, particularly in light of the increased volume of media production and consumption across Asia, and the consequent film tourism destinations that are currently popping up across the Asian continent.
Business. --- Ethnology --- Motion pictures --- Tourism. --- Management. --- Business and Management. --- Tourism Management. --- Asian Cinema. --- Asian Culture. --- Asia. --- Tourism and motion pictures. --- Tourism --- Decision making. --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Motion pictures and tourism --- Economic aspects --- Motion pictures-Asia. --- Ethnology-Asia. --- Asian Cinema and TV. --- Film tourism --- Motion pictures—Asia. --- Ethnology—Asia. --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Culture. --- Asian Film and TV. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects
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The Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is a fictional psychiatric institution. It is where Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the main character ina series of suspense novels by Thomas Harris, has been incarcerated for avery long time. Dr. Lecter is highly intelligent, erudite, and intellectual, but atthe same time devoid of empathy and afflicted with a macabre abnormalityin that, in terms of his preferred diet, he is partial to human flesh. Hence,he has acquired the nickname Hannibal the Cannibal. Hannibal Lecter iswithout doubt one of the most notorious serial killers in Western popular culture. For years, he has been locked up in the deepest, darkest cellar inthis establishment, where he receives visits only from mice, rats, and a stoicguard who comes to bring him food. His cell, at the end of the corridor, issmall, four by four meters, with three stone walls, no window, and a wall ofbars on the fourth side. How does Hannibal cope with this situation? How does he manage to counteract total madness and deal with the isolation? Heuses a well-known cognitive technique: he closes his eyes for a few hours aday and enters the palace of his imagination. This palace is imaginary butconstructed in great detail. It is strikingly large, made up of countless rooms,corridors, and halls, with windows opening up views onto all the places thatare important to Hannibal. The walls are adorned with frescos depicting his own memories, fantasies, and dreams for the future – all these scenes havetheir own place in the palace of his imagination and are retrievable down to the smallest detail.
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"Accessible and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume highlights the connections between media, tourism and place, bringing together the diverse perspectives, approaches and actors involved in critical issues relating to media tourism worldwide. International in scope, this book is an ideal companion for academics and scholars within a wide array of disciplines, such as media studies, tourism studies, fan studies, cultural geography and sociology, as well as those with an interest in media tourism more specifically"--
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