Travel and representation. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Garth Lean, Russell Staiff and Emma Waterton.
• Editors: Lean, Garth; Staiff, Russell; Waterton, Emma
• Other Names: Lean, Garth contributor.; Staiff, Russell contributor.; Waterton, Emma contributor.
• Contents: List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments Introduction: Travel and representation: Past, present, future ; Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton and Garth Lean Chapter 1. Repeating Visions: Hitchcock's Vertigo and San Francisco; Gemma Blackwood Chapter 2. Curious images from Northwest China: Ethics and poetics in Carolyn Drake's travel photography; Darren Byler Chapter 3. Astronauts and avatars: Travels between the physical, the virtual and the imagined; Denise Doyle Chapter 4. Finitude before finitude: The case of Rousseau-Bougainville-Diderot; Benoît Dillet Chapter 5. Bernhard Smith and imagining the Pacific: The art/poetics of 'discovery' and the art/poetics of writing about early European travellers in the South Pacific; Russell Staiff Chaprter 6. Searching for the spirit of bluegrass; Cynthia J. Miller Chapter 7. The transient gaze – Perambulist somnambulist (sensual, sonic and aural photographic narratives); Peter Day Chapter 8. Snapshot photography and a gendered poetics of the beach 1900–1920s; Nicolá Goc Chapter 9. Mediating mythic origins and lived localities: Connecting and distancing on roots/homeland tours; Jillian L. Powers Chapter 10. Road trip through the heartland: Television advertisements and the Australian domestic traveller; Christopher Drew Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 306.4819; Tourism -- Anthropological aspects; Travel -- Social aspects; Travel -- Psychological aspects; Human geography; Human geography; Tourism -- Anthropological aspects; Travel -- Psychological aspects; Travel -- Social aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785336034; 1785336037
• Related ISBNs: 9781785336027
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2017).
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