Filming Tourism, Portraying Pemberley

Troost, Linda

doi:10.1353/ecf.2006.0070

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“…The range of literary-themed destinations increases with the popularity of film and television adaptations of literary works encouraging more visitation, both actual and virtual (Gibson, 2006;Pennacchia, 2015;Troost, 2006). Literary tourism can in fact be considered as the forerunner of film and media-based tourism and in many cases the connections between these forms of tourism are very strong as O'Connor and Kim (2014) suggest.…”

Section: Evolution Of Literary Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The touring reader: Understanding the bibliophile's experience of literary tourism

MacLeod

Shelley²,

Morrison

2018

Tourism Management

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This research explores the literary enthusiast's experience of planning and undertaking literary inspired trips. The research reconceptualises the dominant figure of the literary pilgrim, inspired to visit sites associated with favourite authors, by using detailed results from 30 open-ended surveys distributed to delegates at a literary conference. The findings indicate that these keen readers prefer to plan their own trips and shun organised attractions and mainstream tourist information in favour of employing the texts themselves as source material. Respondents then feed back their experiences into the re-reading of the literary text. These findings are analysed using the concept of concretisation borrowed from literary theory. This concept, which has not been used in previous tourist studies, reflects the experience of these visitors who are using travel to solidify their reading of favourite books. This research therefore highlights the interdependence of texts and travels and emphasises the important role that imagination plays in the experience and recollection of tourist trips.

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Section: Evolution Of Literary Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%