[ecrea] NEW BOOK--Heritage in the Digital Era: Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause

Heritage in the Digital Era
Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause
By Rodanthi Tzanelli

To Be Published 28th February 2013 by Routledge – 248 pages

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
ROUTLEDGE PAGE: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415643801/

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SUMMARY
What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid 
media spaces? ‘Heritage’ usually involves intergenerational transmission 
of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and so serves to 
reproduce national communities over time. However, media industries have 
the power to transform national lands and histories into generic 
landscapes and ideas through digital reproductions or modifications, 
prompting renegotiations of belonging in new ways. Contemporary media 
allow digital environments to function as transnational classrooms, 
creating virtual spaces of debate for people with access to televised, 
cinematic and Internet ideas and networks.
This book examines a range of popular cinematic interventions that are 
reshaping national and global heritage, across Europe, Asia, the 
Americas and Australasia. It examines collaborative or adversarial 
articulations of such enterprise (by artists, directors, producers but 
also local, national and transnational communities) that blend activism 
with commodification, presenting new cultural industries as fluid but 
significant agents in the production of new public spheres.


Rodanthi Tzanelli

Projects and Blogs:
Rodanthi’s Artsite - https://sites.google.com/site/rodanthisartsite/


Identity & Tourism - 
http://sociology.leeds.ac.uk/blogs/identity-and-tourism/category/uncategorized/


Rodanthi Tzanelli’s Teaching - 
https://sites.google.com/site/rodanthitzanellisteaching/home


Work Address:
Sociology & Social Policy
University of Leeds
Social Sciences Building, 12.16
Woodhouse Lane
LS2 9JT
Webpage: http://www.sociology.leeds.ac.uk/about/staff/tzanelli.php
E-mail: (r.tzanelli /at/ leeds.ac.uk)

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