Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism
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Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism

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Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism

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The West is one of the strongest and most enduring place images in the world and its myth is firmly rooted in popular culture – whether novels, film, television, music, clothing and even video games. The West combines myth and history, rugged natural scenery and wide open spaces, popular culture and promises of transformation. These imagined places draw in tourists, attracted by a cultural heritage that is part fictional and mediatised. In turn, tourism operators and destination marketing organisations refashion what they present to fit these imagined images.
This book explores this imagining of a mythic West through three key themes, travel, film and frontiers to offer new insight into how the imagination of the West and popular culture has influenced the construction of tourism. In doing so, it examines the series of paradoxes that underlie the basic appeal of the West: evocative frontier, a boundary zone between civilisation and wilderness and between order and lawlessness. It draws on a range of films and literature as well as varying places from festivals to national parks to showcase different aspects of the nexus between travel, film and frontiers in this fascinating region. Interdisciplinary in character, it includes perspectives from cultural studies, American studies, tourism and film studies.
Written by leading academics, this title will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics in the fields of cultural studies, tourism, film studies and media studies and all those interested in film tourism.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
ISBN
9781317665106
Edition
1
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Travel

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. 1 Go West
  9. 2 Monument Valley
  10. 3 Tragic and vulnerable heroes Chuck and the Duke
  11. 4 Route 66
  12. 5 Tombstone
  13. 6 Fort Sumner
  14. 7 The good outlaw
  15. 8 Lone Pine
  16. 9 Yellowstone
  17. 10 Grand Canyon
  18. 11 Ghost Ranch
  19. 12 Little Bighorn
  20. 13 Stetsons and Daisy Dukes
  21. 14 Travelling the Jurassic West
  22. 15 Las Cruces Spaceport
  23. 16 Once upon a time
  24. References
  25. Filmography
  26. Index