Heritage in the Digital Era: Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause

By Rodanthi Tzanelli

Book Overview

What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? Contemporary media allow digital environments to function as transnational classrooms, creating virtual spaces of debate for people with access to televised, cinematic and Internet ideas and networks. This book examines a range of popular cinematic interventions that are reshaping national and global heritage, across Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australasia.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415643805
• ISBN13: 9780415643801
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"