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| Title: |
Reel Western Fantasies: Portrait of a Tourist Imagination in The Beach (2000) |
| Author: |
Tzanelli, Rodanthi |
| Appeared in: |
Mobilities |
| Paging: | Volume 1 (2006) nr. 1 pages 121-142 |
| Year: |
2006-03-01 |
| Contents: |
This is a study of the phenomenon of 'cinematic tourism' through The Beach (2000), a cinematic adaptation of a novel that satirises the Western search for experiential authenticity through travel. It is argued that the film replicates this quest for 'authenticity'; international responses to it point in the same direction. The study explores how The Beach was used by Internet tourist providers for the promotion of Thailand as a travel destination, claiming that the adaptation was complicit in the advertising of the country as an 'Edenic destination' for Westerners. Finally, the paper follows the organisation of protests when 20th Century Fox decided to 'conform' the area in which the movie was filmed (Phi Phi Leh of Krabi area) to images of tropical tourist paradises. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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