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Public Places, Private Journeys: Ethnography, Entertainment and the Tourist Gaze Ellen Strain
Public Places, Private Journeys: Ethnography, Entertainment and the Tourist Gaze
Ellen Strain
This work posits that the images in film and popular culture not only fill in the gaps of a person's first hand - or rather, lack of first-hand - experience with other cultural situations, but also predisposes the ""tourist gaze"" to view particular locales in a predetermined way.
288 pages, 60 b&w illustrations
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | June 20, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813531878 |
| Publishers | Rutgers University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 160 × 230 × 20 mm · 553 g |
| Language | English |