Travel and Representation (eBook)

Emma Waterton is an Associate Professor based at Western Sydney University in the Institute for Culture and Society and School of Social Sciences and Psychology.

Garth Lean is a Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University.

Russell Staiff is an adjunct fellow in the critical heritage and tourism program in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University and an adjunct professorial fellow in the architectural heritage and tourism program at Silpakorn University, Bangkok.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction
: Travel and Representation: Past, Present, Future
Russell Staiff, Emma Waterton and Garth Lean

Chapter 1. Repeating Visions: Hitchcock’s Vertigo and San Francisco
Gemma Blackwood

Chapter 2. Curious Images from Northwest China: Ethics and Poetics in Carolyn Drake’s Travel Photography
Darren Byler

Chapter 3. Astronauts and Avatars: Travels between the Physical, the Virtual and the Imagined
Denise Doyle

Chapter 4. Finitude before Finitude: The Case of Rousseau-Bougainville-Diderot
Benoît Dillet

Chapter 5. Bernhard Smith and Imagining the Pacific: The Art/Poetics of ‘Discovery’ and the Art/Poetics of Writing about Early European Travellers in the South Pacific
Russell Staiff

Chaprter 6. Searching for the Spirit of Bluegrass
Cynthia J. Miller

Chapter 7. The Transient Gaze – Perambulist Somnambulist (Sensual, Sonic and Aural Photographic Narratives)
Peter Day

Chapter 8. Snapshot Photography and a Gendered Poetics of the Beach 1900–1920s
Nicolá Goc

Chapter 9. Mediating Mythic Origins and Lived Localities: Connecting and Distancing on Roots/Homeland Tours
Jillian L. Powers

Chapter 10. Road Trip through the Heartland: Television Advertisements and the Australian Domestic Traveller
Christopher Drew

Index