Jane Lovell, Chris Bull

Authentic and Inauthentic Places in Tourism (eBook, ePUB)

From Heritage Sites to Theme Parks

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the geography of authenticity, investigating a wide variety of places used by tourists, but it also includes chapters on art and place, hipster places, gentrification, heritage sites and film locations. This is an essential read for those involved in the study of geography, tourism, urban studies, culture and heritage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317385905
• Artikelnr.: 49261689

Autorenporträt

Jane Lovell is a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University. Jane's PhD thesis examined staged authenticity in historic cities. She is Chair of Canterbury Heritage Partnership, co-Director of COaST Network - examining culture in Kent's seaside resorts - and Chair of the Lighting Collective - bringing together academics and practitioners in the field of light shows.

Chris Bull is the former Head of the Department of Sport Science, Tourism and Leisure, Canterbury Christ Church University. He is the co-author of several texts: The Geography of Rural Resources (1984); An Introduction to Leisure Studies (2003); and Sports Tourism: Participants, Policy and Providers (2004 and 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: Places and Authenticity, Chapter 2 Historic
Cities: From Museumification to the Origin of the Spaces, Chapter 3 The
restoration and Reproduction of Historic Sites: From the Ship of Theseus to
mechanistic authentication, Chapter 4 Cities as stage sets: From
gentrification and festival market places to hipster places, Chapter 5
Site-specific art: From magical realism and creative placemaking to
simulacra, Chapter 6 The Seaside Resort: From piers and promenades to
nostalgic authenticity, Chapter 7 The Rural Idyll: From cultural
countryside to constructed authenticity, Chapter 8 Wilderness Regions: From
national parks to existential authenticity, Chapter 9 Squaring the circle
of authenticity in film and photography: From mass-reproduction to the
punctum, Chapter 10 Events and places: From giant spectaculars and carnival
masks to hyperreality, Chapter 11 Variations on a theme: the imagineering
of fast authenticity from theme parks and museums to shopping malls