Tourism And Visual Culture
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Author | : Peter M. Burns |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1845936108 |
The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance. Providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze.
Author | : David Crouch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2003-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
From postcards & paintings to photography & film, tourism & visual culture have a longstanding history of mutual entanglement. This book explores the complex association between tourism & visual culture throughout history & across cultures.
Author | : Peter M. Burns |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1845936124 |
The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance. Providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze.
Author | : Susan Carson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2017-07-14 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351703900 |
This book brings together new ideas about how communities, creative producers, and visitors can productively engage with competing notions of experience and authenticity in the tourist environment. It investigates how community interests intersect the desire for more intimate engagements with cultural experiences. Focusing on the way in which communities and visitors ‘perform’ new forms of cultural tourism, Performing Cultural Tourism is aimed at undergraduate students, researchers, academics, and a diverse range of professionals at both private and government levels that are seeking to develop policies and business plans that recognize and respond to new interests in contemporary tourism.
Author | : Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1998-09-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520209664 |
With the question, "What does it mean to show?", the author explores the agency of display in museums and tourist attractions. She looks at how objects are made to perform their meaning by being collected and how techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey a powerful message.
Author | : Krista A. Thompson |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2007-03-15 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0822388561 |
Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.
Author | : Brian H. Murray |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2016-03-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137543396 |
This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation.
Author | : Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2012-11-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1409490254 |
Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts. The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.
Author | : Helena Buffery |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2012-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0708324827 |
Barcelona - Visual Culture, Space and Power offers a unique approach to the history of the avantgarde in Barcelona, as well as its legacy in the post-war period. It presents the relationship between environment, identity and performance as explored by countercultural artists and communities from the 1960s to the present day.
Author | : Amy Mattson Lauters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Visual communication |
ISBN | : 9781516508372 |
Navigating Visual Culture: Theoretical Perspectives on Visual Media brings together an eclectic collection of theory-driven readings to help students understand and navigate the visual culture in which they live. The selections in Section I explore the nature of the visual and how people identify what they see around them, ranging from basic color to visual codes translated by the brain. Section II features readings that address the way people interpret, explain, and understand visual culture, while the readings in Section III give an overview of the various ways people participate in visual culture, whether as members of a particular media tribe, consumers of advertising, or users of personal computers. Each reading is framed by an original introduction that explains its place and relevance in visual culture, and discerning questions to facilitate classroom discussion or serve as writing prompts. The anthology also provides recommendations for supplemental reading and viewing. Navigating Visual Culture is well-suited to undergraduate courses in mass media, and can also be used for upper division and graduate courses in visual culture and new media.