Culture on display : the production of contemporary visitability / Bella Dicks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dicks, Bella.

Series:

Issues in cultural and media studies.

Issues in cultural and media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture and tourism.

Heritage tourism.

Material culture.

Cultural property.

Cultural policy.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkshire, England : Open University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Culture on Display invites the reader to visit culture. Reflecting on the contemporary proliferation of sites displaying culture in visitable form, it offers fresh ways of thinking about tourism, leisure and heritage. Bella Dicks locates diverse exhibitionary locations within wider social, economic and cultural transformations, including contemporary practices of tourism and travel, strategies of economic development, the staging of identities, globalization, interactivity and relations of consumerism. In particular, she critically examines how culture becomes transformed when it is put on dis

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 01; Chapter 02; Chapter 03; Chapter 04; Chapter 05; Chapter 06; Chapter 07; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-95128-1

0-335-22484-9

OCLC:

437176794