Visual Culture And Tourism

Author : David Crouch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Culture and Tourism written by David Crouch and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From postcards & paintings to photography & film, tourism & visual culture have a longstanding history of mutual entanglement. This book explores the complex association between tourism & visual culture throughout history & across cultures.

Author : Peter M. Burns
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845936116
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Visual Culture Methods and cases written by Peter M. Burns and published by CABI. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance. Providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze.

Author : Peter M. Burns
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1845936108
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Visual Culture written by Peter M. Burns and published by CABI. This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of tourism as a complex social phenomenon, beyond simply business, is increasing in importance. Providing an examination of perceptions of culture and society in tourism destinations through the tourist's eyes, this book discusses how destinations were, and are, created and perceived through the 'lens' of the tourist's gaze.

Author : Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520209664
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Destination Culture written by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-09-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the question, "What does it mean to show?", the author explores the agency of display in museums and tourist attractions. She looks at how objects are made to perform their meaning by being collected and how techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey a powerful message.

Author : Peter M. Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Visual Culture written by Peter M. Burns and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter M. Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Tourism and Visual Culture written by Peter M. Burns and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Krista A. Thompson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388561
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Eye for the Tropics written by Krista A. Thompson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.

Author : PearlAnn Reichwein
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774864540
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uplift written by PearlAnn Reichwein and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1933, the Banff School opened in the stunning surroundings of Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. From its beginnings offering a single drama course, it has since grown into the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, a renowned cultural destination. Uplift traces its first four decades as it generated ideals of culture and liberal democratic citizenship intrinsic to the development of modern Canada. In an era of unstable cultural policy and state support, Uplift draws welcome attention to the continued place of the arts, culture, and the humanities in public education and a life well lived.

Author : Richard Howells
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509518819
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Visual Culture written by Richard Howells and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our increasingly visual world. But, rather than simply providing set meanings to individual images, Visual Culture teaches readers how to interpret visual texts with their own eyes. While the first part of the book takes readers through differing theoretical approaches to visual analysis, the second part shifts to a medium-based analysis, connected by an underlying theme about the complex relationship between visual culture and reality. Howells and Negreiros draw together seemingly diverse methodologies, while ultimately arguing for a polysemic approach to visual analysis. The third edition of this popular book contains over fifty illustrations, for the first time in colour. Included in the revised text is a new section on images of power, fear and seduction, a new segment on video games, as well as fresh material on taste and judgement. This timely edition also offers a glossary and suggestions for further reading. Written in a clear, lively and engaging style, Visual Culture continues to be an ideal introduction for students taking courses in visual culture and communications in a range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, sociology, and art and design.

Author : Steve Watson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351946781
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture, Heritage and Representation written by Steve Watson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'visual' has long played a crucial role in forming experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. Images convey meaning within a range of practices, including tourism, identity construction, the popularization of the past through a variety of media, and the memorialization of events. However, despite the central role of 'the visual' in these contexts, it has been largely neglected in heritage literature. This edited collection is the first to explore the production, use and consumption of visual imagery as an integral part of heritage. Drawing on case studies from around the world, it provides a multidisciplinary analysis of heritage representations, combining complex understandings of the 'visual' from a wide range of disciplines, including heritage studies, sociology and cultural studies perspectives. In doing so, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological tools necessary for understanding visual imagery within its cultural context.