Rodanthi Tzanelli

Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk

Screening the End of Tourism

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Produktbeschreibung

This book adopts an unorthodox approach to debates about 'the end of tourism'. Through twenty-first century cinematic narratives of symbolically interconnected 'risks' it considers how art envisages the future of humanity's well-being. Filmic scenarios articulate the futuristic survival of community as the triumph of the technological human over otherness, and provide a means to debate societal risks that weave identity politics into unequal mobilities. This book will appeal to researchers and students interested in mobilities theory, tourism and travel theory, film studies and aesthetics, globalisation studies, race, labour and migration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781138652644
• ISBN-10: 1138652644
• Artikelnr.: 45378009

Autorenporträt

Rodanthi Tzanelli is Associate Professor of Cultural Sociology at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests include globalisation, cosmopolitanism and mobility, with emphasis on tourism, migration, social movements and art theory. She is author of over 60 articles and another eight monographs, including 'Mobility, Modernity and the Slum: The Real and Virtual Journeys of Slumdog Millionaire' (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Outline of the book 1. Governmobility, risk and cine-tourism:
Looking back, looking forward 2. Heritage entropy and dark pilgrimage:
Production-as-consumption fields and multiple temporalities 3. Escape from
Johannesburg and return to dark roots 4. Humorous tonality, dark heart:
From District 9's zombies to African aesthetics 5. Contested realities:
Implementing technologies of darkest tourism on virtual post-colonies 6.
Conclusion: Who speaks of darkness in futurist design?