Overview
- Applies dark tourism to the virtual realm, breaking open new territory on the cutting edge of Memory Studies
- Addresses how virtual pilgrimages influence consumers, readers, viewers, and gamers
- Explores how imitations of thanatourism shape cultural understandings of the past
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Literary Journeys
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Film Trips
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Gaming Travel
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About this book
This book takes the concept of “dark tourism”—journeys to sites of death, suffering, and calamity—in an innovative yet essential direction by applying it to the virtual realms of literature, film and television, the Internet, and gaming. Essays focus both on the creative construction of imaginary journeys and the historiographic and civic consequences of such memorializations. From World War II time-travel novels to Game of Thrones, and from Internet reproductions of Rwandan genocide locations to invented tragedies in futuristic domains, authors from various fields examine the purpose and influence of simulated travels to morbid sites. Designed for a wide audience of scholars and travelers virtual and real, this volume raises awareness about the many pathways through which we encounter death experiences in contemporary society. What we know about the past—or, what we think we know about it—is shaped daily by such imagined journeys as these.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Kathryn N. McDaniel is Andrew U. Thomas Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Marietta College, USA. A British historian specializing in intersections between popular culture and history, she is also co-editor of Harry Potter for Nerds 2.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Virtual Dark Tourism
Book Subtitle: Ghost Roads
Editors: Kathryn N. McDaniel
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74687-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-74686-9Published: 04 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09055-5Published: 14 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-74687-6Published: 23 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6419
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6427
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 323
Topics: Culture and Technology, Cultural Heritage, Memory Studies, Popular Culture , Sociology of Sport and Leisure