Motion Pictures
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Motion Pictures

Travel Ideals in Film

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  1. 238 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Motion Pictures

Travel Ideals in Film

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About this book

This volume examines representations and explorations of travel ideals in contemporary international cinema. It assembles work from a diverse range of academic fields including anthropology, sociology, ethnography, cinema, culture, tourism, communication and language studies, with contributions from international experts such as Mary Louise Pratt of New York University, whose work on 'contact zones' continues to provide the framework for scholarship on travel writing around the world. The volume explores the link between filmed spaces and real locations, with one of the fundamental dynamics being the investigation of filmmaking itself, and in particular the notion that cultural authenticity may be sought and found by filming 'on location'. Also examined are the notions of fantasy and exoticism that arise through an idealisation of the locations themselves and their transformational impact on the protagonists who travel there. Such is the impact of motion pictures on contemporary culture that these travel ideals in film will inevitably influence our understanding of cities, regions, nations and cultures; indeed, the world around us and our role in it.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. In Motion and On Location: Representing Travel Ideals in Film (Gemma Blackwood & Andrew McGregor)
  4. Chapter One: On Location: White SUVs, Moral High Ground, and the Politics of Re-enactment in Icíar Bollaín’s También la lluvia / Even the Rain (Mary Louise Pratt)
  5. Chapter Two: Barcelona’s Cinematic Image: Negotiating Place in Mainstream International Cinema (Alfredo Martínez-Expósito)
  6. Chapter Three: Not Another Road Movie: Alternative Utopias of Travel in Sans soleil (1982) and Sansa (2003) (Jacqueline Dutton)
  7. Chapter Four: Road Movie in Reverse or Perpetual Exile? The Mirage of the ‘Return’ in Tony Gatlif ’s Exils (2004) (Andrew McGregor)
  8. Chapter Five: ‘The Film of a Provincial’: The Artist Traveller in Fellini’s La dolce vita (1959) (Mark Nicholls & Anthony White)
  9. Chapter Six: Freedom and Belonging Up in the Air: Reconsidering the Travel Ideal with Jean-Luc Nancy (Adam Doering)
  10. Chapter Seven: Paradise Glossed: The Representation of Backpacker Ideals in The Beach (Gemma Blackwood)
  11. Chapter Eight: Scenes of Black Masculinity and Wanderlust: Gendered Mobility and Film Diaspora in The Emperor Jones (Michael Ra-shon Hall)
  12. Chapter Nine: Travel Ideals in Food: Cooking up an Ideal(ised) Italy in Contemporary American ‘Middlebrow’ Films (Roberta Trapè)
  13. Chapter Ten: Coming to the Reel Australia: North American Exchange Student Perceptions of Australia (Mitchell Low & Martin Forsey)
  14. Chapter Eleven: Farewell to Journeying: Dennis O’Rourke’s Cannibal Tours (Paula Kelly)
  15. Notes on Contributors
  16. Index