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Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism (Paperback)
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Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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The West is one of the strongest and most enduring place images in
the world and its myth is firmly rooted in popular culture -
whether novels, film, television, music, clothing and even video
games. The West combines myth and history, rugged natural scenery
and wide open spaces, popular culture and promises of
transformation. These imagined places draw in tourists, attracted
by a cultural heritage that is part fictional and mediatised. In
turn, tourism operators and destination marketing organisations
refashion what they present to fit these imagined images. This book
explores this imagining of a mythic West through three key themes,
travel, film and frontiers to offer new insight into how the
imagination of the West and popular culture has influenced the
construction of tourism. In doing so, it examines the series of
paradoxes that underlie the basic appeal of the West: evocative
frontier, a boundary zone between civilisation and wilderness and
between order and lawlessness. It draws on a range of films and
literature as well as varying places from festivals to national
parks to showcase different aspects of the nexus between travel,
film and frontiers in this fascinating region. Interdisciplinary in
character, it includes perspectives from cultural studies, American
studies, tourism and film studies. Written by leading academics,
this title will be valuable reading for students, researchers and
academics in the fields of cultural studies, tourism, film studies
and media studies and all those interested in film tourism.
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