Rodanthi Tzanelli: 8 books
Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe's 'Backwaters'
Rethinking civility
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ‘Backwaters’ reconsiders the definitional relationships of ‘national character’ and ‘national heritage’ in the context of Western industrial modernity. Taking as a case study the Greek islands of Skiathos and Skopelos which served as cinematic locations...
Mobility, Modernity and the Slum
The Real and Virtual Journeys of 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Only virtuous humans are supposed to move in time to meet their happy destiny or karma. The tale of Jamal in Slumdog Millionaire is such a case of serendipitous mobility towards riches and love – a ‘journey’ in which good heroes and urban communities respecting solidarity are successfully modernised....
Socio-Cultural Mobility and Mega-Events
Ethics and Aesthetics in Brazil’s 2014 World Cup
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
In June 2014, Brazil opened the twentieth FIFA World Cup with a spectacular ceremony. Hosting the World Cup was a strategic developmental priority for Brazil: mega-events such as these allow the country to be ranked amongst the world’s political and economic leaders, and are supposed to propel the...
Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination
Creating Atmospheres for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Atmosphere, the elusive ambiance of a place, enables or hinders its mobility in global consumption contexts. Atmosphere connects to social imaginaries, utopian representational frames producing the culture of a city or country. But who resolves atmospheric contradictions in a place’s social and...
Cinematic Tourist Mobilities and the Plight of Development
On Atmospheres, Affects, and Environments
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both. What localities and nation-states value are discarded, suppressed, or modified beyond recognition in neoliberal markets; thus flattening...
Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk
Screening the End of Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
In today’s world, the need to eliminate natural and human-made disasters has been at the forefront of national and international socio-political agendas. The management of risks such as terrorism, labour strikes, protests and environmental degradation has become pivotal for countries that depend...
Heritage in the Digital Era
Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
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...
The Cinematic Tourist
Explorations in Globalization, Culture and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Recent years have seen a radical transformation of conventional tourist marketing and experience. The use of exotic locations in Hollywood films has allowed global audiences to enjoy distant places. Simultaneously, Hollywood screening of potential 'tourist paradises' has generated new tourist industries...