Using the text from Shakespeare's ten "Italian Plays," the author determined the exact locations of nearly every scene, recording them in a work that's a combination literary detective story and travelogue
Using the text from Shakespeare's ten "Italian Plays," the author determined the exact locations of nearly every scene, recording them in a work that's a combination literary detective story and travelogue.
This text explores the evocations of place, and particularly American place, that have become central to the representational and narrative strategies of alternative and mainstream film and video.
"Research on the relationship between the apocalyptic tradition and the literary imagination has typically espoused a temporal approach which in one way or another revolves around the order of events that precedes the end of history and the ensuing establishment of a new world. …
"Recent years have seen an explosive growth in the phenomenon of people visiting locations from popular novels, films or television series. Places of the Imagination presents a timely and insightful analysis of this form of media tourism, exploring the question of how best to ex…
Places of the Imagination presents a timely and insightful analysis of the increasing popularity of media tourism within contemporary culture. Drawing on extensive empirical and interview material, this book examines the representation of landscapes in popular narratives that ha…
"From Atlantis to Xanadu, this Baedeker of make-believe takes readers on a tour of more than 1,200 realms invented by storytellers from Homer's day to our own." "Most every fanciful world from books and film is included: Shangri-La and El Dorado are here, as is Utopia, Tolkien's…