基本説明
Theorizes how film and popular culture predetermine our views of distant locales and peoples.
Full Description
In this globally interconnected planet, we are increasingly able to access exotic locales without ever actually seeing these places firsthand. Instead, what we perceive to be fresh cultural experiences are actually second-hand moments, filtered through mediums such as television, film, the internet, CD-Roms, and various other media.
Ellen Strain posits that the images in film and popular culture not only fill in the gaps of a person's first-hand—or rather, lack of first-hand—experience with other cultural situations, but also predisposes the "tourist gaze" to view particular locales in a predetermined way. She theorizes the idea of a touristic way of understanding the world in general. How, she asks, are our cross-cultural perceptions of places and peoples created in the first place? Can a set of images—such as postcards—mediate our vision of distant geographies? Are there culturally constructed strategies set up to mediate our cross-cultural perceptions of the exotic? Strain includes the works of Jules Verne, E. M. Forster, and Michael Crichton, as well as film, CD-Rom travel games and virtual reality in her own authorial gaze.
Public Places, Private Journeys is a unique postmodern exploration of how individuals see across cultural differences in an era of increasingly commercialized and globalized culture.
Contents
Introduction: The Filtering Eye of the Tourist
FOUNDATIONS
Defining the Tourist Gaze
Touristic Births: Placing the Tourist
Technological Identification: Stereography and the Panama Canal
THE CINEMATIC TOURIST GAZE
Moving Postcards: The Politics of Mobility and Stasis in Early Cinema
Jules Verne: Travel and Adaptation
Snapshots of Greece: Never on Sunday and the Politics of Touristic Narrative
Corporeal Geographies: E.M. Forster on Film
Global Mappings: Michael Crichton's Postmodern Travels
BEYOND FILM
Millennium: Tourist Stand-ins and Hyphenated Anthropologists
Narrativizing Cybertravel: CD-ROM Travel Games
Virtual Reality and the Challenges of Reembodied Tourism
