[Commlist] New Book: From the Tourist’s Gaze. Holiday Home Movies as Vernacular Sources for the Ecocritical Thought

Pietro Agnoletto is pleased to announce the publication of the new book, 
From the Tourist’s Gaze: Holiday Home Movies as Vernacular Sources for 
the Ecocritical Thought/.

*Summary*
The book bridges environmental humanities and amateur cinema studies, 
examining how tourists’ own visual representations—specifically home 
movies filmed by North-West Italian families during their holidays in 
the Ligurian Riviera between the 1950s and 1970s—depict and engage with 
tourism-induced environmental transformations. This period, marked by 
the Italian “economic miracle”, saw rapid changes in landscapes due to 
industrialization and mass tourism. Through an innovative methodological 
approach to archival research and visual analysis, the book proposes new 
digital tools for studying amateur films as historical sources. While 
grounded in a specific case study, its findings may be of interest to 
scholars in cultural geography, media and tourism studies, environmental 
humanities, and amateur cinema, as well as archivists working with home 
movie collections.

*index*

/Introduction/

/Part One
/1. Tourists with a Movie Camera
2. Greening the Home Movies
3. Approaching the Archive

/Part Two
/4. Doing Holidays During the Economic Miracle
5. The Ligurian Coast

/Part Three
/6. The Archive Exploration
7. Reading the Home Movie

/Part Four
/8. Half a Century of Tourism Through the Tourists' Eyes
9. Environmental Discourses in Tourism Representations

/Conclusions/


For more informations:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003564652/tourist-gaze-pietro-agnoletto 




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