Imagining The American West Through Film And Tourism (Contemporary Geographies Of Leisure, Tourism And Mobility)

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.

• | Author: Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 09, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 282 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138785237
• | ISBN-13: 9781138785236