Locating imagination in popular culture : place, tourism and belonging

Locating imagination in popular culture : place, tourism and belonging / edited by Nicky van Es [and three others] - 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations, maps - Routledge research in cultural and media studies .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : locating imagination in popular culture: place, tourism, and belonging Part I. Theorizing the imagination Imaginative heritage : towards a holistic perspective on media, tourism, and governance The open-ended ruin : imaginative authenticity as a driver of alternative tourism No place like Birmingham? The politics of immobility, invisibility, and resentment I just can’t get you out of my head : how music triggers the imagination Space, lived culture, and affectivities in stirring imagination Part II. Mediating place Screening the west coast : developing New Nordic Noir tourism in Denmark and using the actual places as full-scale visual mood boards for the scriptwriting process Flying down to a cosmopolitan-tropical paradise Following Oshin and Amachan : film tourism and nation branding in the analogue and digital ages Touring the videogame city Locating the literary imagination : broadening the scope of literary tourism Part III. Being there Toy tourism : from Travel Bugs to characters with wanderlust On (be)longing : the Der Bergdoktor phenomenon at the European cultural periphery Live event-spaces : place and space in the mediatized experience of events Fans and fams : experience and belonging aboard a cruise ship music festival Part IV. Returning home : memory and belonging Strange spaces of mediated memory : the complicating influence of Roots on heritage tourism in The Gambia, West Africa How stories relate to places? Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence as literary tourism Placing fandom : reflections on film tourism The National Theatre, London, as a theatrical/architectural object of fan imagination

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Popular culture
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