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Touristic World-Making and Fan Pilgrimage in Popular Culture Destinations.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ziakas, Vassilios.
- Series:
- Tourism and Cultural Change Series
- Tourism and Cultural Change Series ; v.64
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture and tourism.
- Fans (Persons).
- Pilgrims and pilgrimages.
- Popular culture and globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Channel View Publications, Limited, 2024.
- Summary:
- This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based recommendations for popular culture destinations.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Prologue
- 1. Introduction to Popular Culture Destinations: Contexts, Perspectives and Insights
- Part 1: Fandoms and Popular Culture Tourism Placemaking
- 2. Commemorating Rock Stars: Exploring Fan Interactions at AC/DC and Chrissie Amphlett Lanes, Melbourne, Australia
- 3. The Emergence of Fan Pilgrimage Sites - Unintended and Intended
- Part 2: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys of Fans
- 4. 'Walking Battlefield Sites': An Experience of Secular Pilgrimage
- 5. Gloomy or Exciting: Image, Engagement and Violent TV Drama in a Heritage Destination Setting
- 6. Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys in Hawaii: Where the Secular and Sacred Intersect
- Part 3: Digitalisation in Popular Culture Destinations
- 7. Wish It Were Here: Fan Travel Vlogs as Virtual Spaces of Popular Culture Tourism
- 8. @Bluey_Locations: The Brisbane Local as Bluey Tourist
- 9. Millennials' Responses to Popular Culture-Induced Visual and Verbal Cues: An Eye-Tracking Investigation
- Part 4: Popular Culture Tourism Spaces and Imaginaries of the World
- 10. (Re)Celebrating Baseball's Rural Nostalgia: Placemaking and Touristification in the Cornfields of Iowa
- 11. Climate Disaster Films and Scholarly-Virtual Pilgrimage to Viable Planetary Futures
- Epilogue
- 12. Conclusions for Popular Culture Tourism Research: Progress and Problematics
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781845418960
- 1845418964
- 9781845418953
- 1845418956
- OCLC:
- 1411306216
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