Virtual Dark Tourism Ghost Roads /

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...

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Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydanie:1st ed. 2018.
Edícia:Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Predmet:
Culture.
Technology.
Cultural heritage.
Historiography.
Popular Culture.
Sports-Sociological aspects.
ISBN:9783319746876
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Obsah:
  • 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.

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