Public Places, Private Journeys

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ISBN: 9780813531878 | 081353187X
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Copyright: 7/1/2003

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Ellen Strain is an assistant professor of film and multimedia in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Preface and Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: The Filtering Eye of the Tourist

(14)

PART ONE FOUNDATIONS

ONE Defining the Tourist Gaze

(22)

TWO Touristic Births: Placing the Tourist

(37)

THREE Technological Identification: Stereography and the Panama Canal

(31)

PART TWO THE CINEMATIC TOURIST GAZE

FOUR Moving Postcards: The Politics of Mobility and Stasis in Early Cinema

105

(19)

FIVE Jules Verne: Travel and Adaptation

124

(30)

SIX Snapshots of Greece: Never on Sunday and the Politics of Touristic Narrative

154

(21)

SEVEN Corporeal Geographies: E. M. Forster on Film

175

(16)

EIGHT Global Mappings: Michael Crichton's Postmodern Travels

191

(22)

PART THREE BEYOND FILM

NINE Millennium: Tourist Stand-ins and Hyphenated Anthropologists

213

(17)

TEN Narrativizing Cybertravel: CD-ROM Travel Games

230

(18)

ELEVEN Virtual Reality and the Challenges of Reembodied Tourism

248

(26)

Conclusion

274

(5)

Notes

279

(14)

Bibliography

293

(10)

Index

303

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