Tzanelli, R (2013) Heritage in the Digital Era: Cinema and the Activist Cause. Routledge ISBN 978-0-203-07995-9
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Book |
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Keywords: | media, tourism, heritage, legacy, environment; audio-visual studies; film theory; social theory; cultural geography |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2013 12:51 |
Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2016 02:26 |
Published Version: | http://www.routledge.com/ |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:76138 |