Tourism and popular fiction: 1945 to the present
An Association for Research in Popular Fictions study day
Saturday May 8, 2004
Liverpool John Moores University
Participants are invited to discuss: airport novels; in-flight movies; armchair travelling; high-concept destinations; brochures and book covers; sex, sexuality and settings; train station booksellers; series and cities; screening and selling scenery; genres of tourist and tourist fiction; couples and the romance of travel; fictional tourism and anti-tourism; the book, the film of the book and the tour of the film of the book; marketing fiction through difference; consuming places; resorts and holiday reading; (popular) cultural tourism
We are particularly keen to receive papers addressing film, television and magazines
Extended deadline for abstracts: March 1, 2004
For more information, contact Nicole Matthews, Media and Cultural Studies, Dean Walters Building, St.James Road, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L1 7BY; Ph: 0151 231 5045; Fax: 0151 231 5049;
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