The time of the sign: A semiotic interpretation of modern culture (Advances in semiotics)

Politics & Social Sciences

MacCannell, Dean

Social Sciences

Indiana University Press

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

The tourist: A new theory of the leisure class

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class.

Business & Money

Industries

Schocken Books

Empty Meeting Grounds continues Dean MacCannell's search for the cultural subject that is about to emerge from the encounter of the ex-primitive and the post-modern. It contains fascinating chapters on `Cannibal Tours', `The Desire to be Postmodern', the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., the Statue of Liberty Restoration Project and the urbanization of Yosemite Park.

Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers

History

Routledge

Empty Meeting Grounds examines some of the new cultural forms and community arrangements that accompany the development of global tourism.

Economics

Long regarded as a classic, The Tourist is an examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality. It brings the concerns of social science to an analysis of travel and sightseeing in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class acquired leisure time for international travel. This edition includes a new foreword by Lucy R. Lippard and a new afterword by the author.

The Tourist

University of California Press

The Ethics of Sightseeing

Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understanding? In this challenging book, Dean MacCannell identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through his unique combination of personal observation and in-depth scholarship, MacCannell ventures into specific tourist destinations and attractions: “picturesque” rural and natural landscapes, “hip” urban scenes, historic locations of tragic events, Disney theme parks, beaches, and travel poster ideals. He shows how strategies intended to attract tourists carry unintended consequences when they migrate to other domains of life and reappear as “staged authenticity.” Demonstrating each act of sightseeing as an ethical test, the book shows how tourists can realize the productive potential of their travel desires, penetrate the collective unconscious, and gain character, insight, and connection to the world.

Is travel inherently beneficial to human character? Does it automatically educate and enlighten while also promoting tolerance, peace, and understanding? In this challenging book, Dean MacCannell identifies and overcomes common obstacles to ethical sightseeing. Through his unique combination of personal observation and in-depth scholarship, MacCannell ventures into specific tourist destinations and attractions: “picturesque” rural and natural landscapes, “hip” urban scenes, historic locations of tragic events, Disney theme parks, beaches, and travel poster ideals. He shows how strategies intended to attract tourists carry unintended consequences when they migrate to other domains of life and reappear as “staged authenticity.” Demonstrating each act of sightseeing as an ethical test, the book shows how tourists can realize the productive potential of their travel desires, penetrate the collective unconscious, and gain character, insight, and connection to the world.

In this classic analysis of travel and sightseeing, author Dean MacCannell brings social scientific understandings to bear on tourism in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class has acquired leisure time for international travel. In The Tourist―now with a new introduction framing it as part of a broader contemporary social and cultural analysis―the author examines notions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality around tourism.

Long regarded as a classic, "The Tourist" is an examination of the phenomenon of tourism through a social theory lens that encompasses discussions of authenticity, high and low culture, and the construction of social reality. It brings the concerns of social science to an analysis of travel and sightseeing in the postindustrial age, during which the middle class acquired leisure time for international travel.

Schocken

"A perceptive, entertaining discussion of tourists and tourism...lends a new and important tone to traditional debates about high and low culture." - Contemporary Sociology

Tourist

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The time of the sign: A semiotic interpretation of modern culture (Advances in semiotics)

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class.

Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers

Empty Meeting Grounds: The Tourist Papers

The Tourist

The Ethics of Sightseeing

The Ethics of Sightseeing

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class

The Tourist

Tourist