Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism

Name: Imagining the American West through Film and Tourism
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book explores this imagining of a mythic West through three key themes, travel, film and frontiers to offer new insight into how the imagination of the West and popular culture has influencing the construction of tourism. By doing it examines the paradoxes of the constructed imagination of the West such as it being an evocative frontier, constructed as a boundary zone between civilisation and wilderness, even between order and lawlessness. The book draws on a range of films and literature as well as varying places from festivals to national parks to showcase different aspects of the nexus between travel, film and frontiers in this fascinating region. > The West is one of the strongest and most enduring place images in the world and its myth is firmly rooted in popular culture \u2013 whether novels, film, television, music, clothing and even video games. The West combines myth and history, rugged natural scenery and wide open spaces, popular culture and promises of transformae