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Author Leotta, Alfio.

Title Touring the screen : tourism and New Zealand film geographies / Alfio Leotta
Published Chicago, IL : Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations
Contents Early New Zealand films and western voy(ag)eurs -- 1940-1990 : New Zealand film landscapes for prospective 'cinenauts' -- The legacy of The piano : film-tourist geographies and the aesthetic of the sublime -- From Ngati to Whale rider : the filmic journey of the Indigenous traveller -- From Mt. Fuji to Mt. Taranaki : D'paysement and celebrity worship in The last samurai -- 'Welcome to New Zealand, home of middle earth' : heterotopian impulse, western anxiety and spatial identity in The lord of the rings -- Conclusions
Summary "Following the success of prominent feature films shot on location, including Tolkien’s wildly popular The Lord of the Rings, New Zealand boasts an impressive film tourism industry. This book examines the relationship between New Zealand’s cinematic representation—as both a vast expanse of natural beauty and a magical world of fantasy on screen—and its tourism imagery, including the ways in which savvy local tourism boards have in recent decades used the country’s film representations to sell New Zealand as a premiere travel destination. Focusing on the films that have had a strong impact on marketing strategies by local tourist boards, Touring the Screen will be of interest to all those working and studying in the fields of cinema, postcolonial history, and tourism studies." -- Publisher's Decription
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Includes filmography
Notes Print version record
Subject Tourism and motion pictures.
Travelogues (Motion pictures) -- New Zealand -- History and criticism
Tourism -- Social aspects -- New Zealand
Motion picture industry -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Motion picture industry
Motion pictures
Tourism and motion pictures
Tourism -- Social aspects
Travelogues (Motion pictures)
SUBJECT New Zealand -- In motion pictures
Subject New Zealand
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781841505848
1841505846