Media, Place and Tourism

Stijn Reijnders is Professor of Cultural Heritage and Vice Dean of Research at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the intersection of media, culture and tourism. Furthermore, he is co-founder of the Erasmus Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage and Tourism. Emiel Martens is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on the intersections between film, tourism and empire. Furthermore, he is co-founder of both the Expertise Centre Humanitarian Communication (HUCOM) and the Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage and Tourism (FIHETO). Deborah Castro is Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Groningen. Her research interests lie in the fields of television and audience studies. She received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to study the local community’s reactions to film tourism in Spain. Débora Póvoa is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her research focuses on power dynamics of media production and tourism. She is a board member of the Erasmus Knowledge Centre for Film, Heritage and Tourism (FIHETO) and film review editor of the European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Apoorva Nanjangud is Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud Institute of Culture and History, Radboud University Nijmegen. She is a cultural sociologist, with an expertise at the intersection of the media, tourism and the creative sectors, particularly in the context of India. Rosa Schiavone is PhD Candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her PhD project examines the production of place in film tourism in Scotland and explores the interconnections between popular culture, place and local and national heritage.

Introduction: Worlds of Imagination. Part 1. Imagining Place in Popular Culture: Representation, Travel, Media. 1. The Runaway Production of A Daughter of the Gods: Film, Tourism and Empire in Early Twentieth-Century Jamaica. 2. More than just home of Middle Earth: The History of Film Tourism in Aotearoa New Zealand. 3. Where East Becomes West: Imaginative Geographies of Eastern Europe in Popular Indian Cinema. 4. The Unfulfilled Potential of the Radio Archives: Designing a Prototype to Uncover Hidden Stories in the Landscape. 5. Environmental Imaginaria in the Age of Extinction: Perspectives from the “Critical Zone”. Part 2. Visiting Places of the Imagination: Fandom, Experience, Affects. 6. The Everyday Tourist: Travelling the Theatre of the Mind in the Wake of Permacrisis. 7. From SDCC to Globalised/Glocalised Comic-Cons: Towards the Experience Economy of Co-existential ‘Event Fans’. 8. Multi-vocality Induced by Laid-Back Camp Among Chinese Audiences. 9. Bollywood Tourism Among the Hindustanis in the Netherlands: A Transnational Perspective. Part 3. Making Place in a Mediatized World: Heritage, Community, Social Change. 10. Whose Homestead is it? Little Houses on the Prairie and the Cultural Politics of White Colonial Settlement in the U.S.. 11. Popular Music Heritage in Ekaterinburg: From Seeking Authorisation and Nostalgia for Soviet Rock to Participatory Place-making. 12. Negotiating Dark and Light Magic: Witch-themed Tourism in Harz, Germany, in a Transcultural Context. 13. What About the Locals? Exploring Residents’ Interest in and Suggestions for the Development of Film Tourism in Seville, Spain. Part 4. Developing Media Tourism: Policy, Management, Strategies. 14. Film Tourism in Brazil: Learning from Local Perspectives. 15. Developing and Managing Film-related Tourism at Film Studios with the Design of Cultural and Heritage Features - the Case of Hengdian World Studios (China). 16. Promoting Popular Culture (and) Tourism as National Policies: Comparing “Cool Japan” and “Korean Wave”. 17. Destination Nollywood: The Connections Between Film and Tourism in Nigeria, 2012-2022.