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The ethics of sightseeing /

Title:
The ethics of sightseeing /
Author:
MacCannell, Dean.
Published:
Berkeley : c2011.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emmanuel College
Contents:
The ubiquitous tourist and postmodern paranoia. Tourist/other and the unconscious -- Staged authenticity today -- Recent trends in research and the new moral tourism. Why sightseeing? -- Toward an ethics of sightseeing -- Trips and their reason -- City and countryside as symbolic constructs. The tourist in the urban symbolic -- Looking through the landscape -- The imagination versus the imaginary. An imaginary symbolic: from Piranesi to Disney -- The touristic attitude: acceding to the imaginary -- The Bilbao effect: ethical symbolic representation -- Painful memory -- The intentional structure of tourist imagery -- Tourist agency.

Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emmanuel Main Stacks
G155.A1 M15 2011Available