Travel and Representation / / ed. by Garth Lean, Emma Waterton , Russell Staiff.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Blackwood, Gemma,; Byler, Darren,; Day, Peter,; Dillet, Benoît,; Doyle, Denise,; Drew, Christopher,; Goc, Nicolá,; Lean, Garth,; Miller, Cynthia J.,; Powers, Jillian L.,; Staiff, Russell,; Waterton, Emma,
• HerausgeberIn: Lean, Garth,; Staiff, Russell,; Waterton , Emma,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

Travel and Representation is a timely volume of essays that explores and re-examines the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical wo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction. Travel and Representation: Past, Present, Future
• 1 Repeating Visions: Hitchcock’s Vertigo and San Francisco
• 2 Curious Images from Northwest China: Ethics and Poetics in Carolyn Drake’s Travel Photography
• 3 Astronauts and Avatars: Travels between the Physical, the Virtual and the Imagined
• 4 Finitude before Finitude: The Case of Rousseau-Bougainville-Diderot
• 5 Bernard Smith and Imagining the Pacific: The Art/Poetics of ‘Discovery’ and the Art/Poetics of Writing about Early European Travellers in the South Pacific
• 6 Searching for the Spirit of Bluegrass
• 7 The Transient Gaze: Perambulist Somnambulist (Sensual, Sonic and Aural Photographic Narratives)
• 8 Snapshot Photography and a Gendered Poetics of the Beach, 1900s–1920s
• 9 Mediating Mythic Origins and Lived Localities: Connecting and Distancing on Roots/Homeland Tours
• 10 Road Trip through the Heartland: Television Advertisements and the Australian Domestic Traveller
• Index