Locating Imagination in Popular Culture - 9780367492632

Taylor & Francis > Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Locating Imagination in Popular CulturePlace, Tourism and Belonging\nAuthor(s): Nicky van Es, Stijn Reijnders, Leonieke Bolderman, Abby Waysdorf\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367492632, 978-0367492632\nSynopsis\nLocating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. \n\nCentred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming increasingly important in the ways in which places and localities are imagined, and how they also subsequently stimulate a desire to visit the actual places in which peoples favourite stories are set. With examples drawn from around the globe, the book offers a unique study of the role of narratives con.