Strain ellen (17 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. No Jacket. First Edition. A new copy of the first hard cover edition, lacking the dust-jacket. The text is of course wholly unmarked, pristine, and the cloth binding is bright and fresh in appearance. A brilliant copy.

Paperback. Condizione: Acceptable. Acceptable - This is a significantly damaged book. It should be considered a reading copy only. Please order this book only if you are interested in the content and not the condition. May be ex-library. PAPERBACK Standard-sized.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No jacket. Cover is slightly yellowed, bears some stains and rub marks, and a price sticker on front cover. Dent on cover reaches into the first few pages. Otherwise, the inside pages are clean and unmarked.

Secondhand, Paperback. [Author], [Publisher]. NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title. Author: Ellen Strain Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In this globally interconnected planet, we are increasingly able to access exotic locales without ever actually seeing these places first-hand. Instead, what we perceive to be fresh cultural experiences are actually second-hand moments, filtered through mediums such as television, film, the internet, CD-Roms, and various other media. Ellen Strain posits that the images in film and popular culture not only fill in the gaps of a person's first-hand-or rather, lack of first-hand-experience with other cultural situations, but also predisposes the "tourist gaze" to view particular locales in a predetermined way. She theorizes the idea of a touristic way of understanding the world in general. How, she asks, are our cross-cultural perceptions of places and peoples created in the first place? Can a set of images-such as postcards-mediate our vision of distant geographies? Are there culturally constructed strategies set up to mediate our cross-cultural perceptions of the exotic? Strain includes the works of Jules Verne, E. M. Forster, and Michael Crichton, as well as film, CD-Rom travel games and virtual reality in her own authorial gaze. Secondhand, Paperback.…

CD-ROM. Condizione: New. No Dust Jacket. CD-ROM. Item remains in original shrinkwrap. New. AF.

Condizione: New. Brand New.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. A clean, bright copy. spine not creased. 235 x 155 mm. xii, 316 pp. B&w figures. Includes bibliographical references and index. Book.

Condizione: New. In English.

Condizione: New. 2003. Paperback. . . . . .

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Condizione: New. pp. 328.

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Condizione: New. pp. 328 49:B&W 6.14 x 9.21 in or 234 x 156 mm (Royal 8vo) Perfect Bound on White w/Gloss Lam.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.25x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: New. This work posits that the images in film and popular culture not only fill in the gaps of a person s first hand - or rather, lack of first-hand - experience with other cultural situations, but also predisposes the tourist gaze to view particular locales.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.