Virtual Dark Tourism Ghost Roads /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: McDaniel, Kathryn N. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
• Θέματα: Culture.; Technology.; Cultural heritage.; Historiography.; Popular Culture.; Sports-Sociological aspects.; Culture and Technology.; Cultural Heritage.; Memory Studies.; Popular Culture .; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.

This book takes the concept of "dark tourism"-journeys to sites of death, suffering, and calamity-in an innovative yet essential direction by applying it to the virtual realms of literature, film and television, the Internet, and gaming. Essays focus both on the creative construction of im...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction, Virtual Dark Tourism: Disaster in the Space of the Imagination
• 2. "Some Lingering Influence in the Shunned House": H. P. Lovecraft's Three Invitations to Dark Tourism
• 3. "Imagined ghosts on unfrequented roads": Gothic Tourism in Nineteenth-Century Cornwall
• 4. Through the Looking Glass Darkly: The Convergence of Past and Present in Connie Willis's Time-Travel Novels
• 5. Cinematic Thanatourism and the Purloined Past: The "Game of Thrones Effect" and the Effect of Game of Thrones on History
• 6. Touring the "Burning Times": The Rhetoric of Witch-Hunting Films, 1968-1973
• 7. "Did Those Portly Men Over There Once Rush This Position?": Virtual Dark Tourism and D-Day Commemorations
• 8. Thanaviewing, the Aokigahara Forest, and Orientalism: Rhetorical Separations between the Self and the Other in The Forest
• 9. Experiencing Rwanda: Understanding Mass Atrocity at Nyamata
• 10. Hurricane Katrina Goes Digital: Memory, Dark Tours, and YouTube
• 11. A Virtual Dark Journey through the Debris: Playing Inside the Haiti Earthquake (2010)
• 12. Surviving the Colonial Blizzard: The Alaskan Native Game Never Alone as a Walkthrough in Cultural Resistance
• 13. Virtually Historical: Performing Dark Tourism through Alternate History Games
• 14. Remembering Fictional History and Virtual War in EVE Online.