Thanks for the great response. The book is now allocated. Apologies to everyone who emailed me offering to review.
Best Regards,
Peter
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Peter Lugosi, PhD
Senior Lecturer
School of Tourism
Bournemouth University
Talbot Campus
Fern Barrow
Poole
Dorset
BH12 5BB
Tel. 01202 961888
Fax. 01202 515707
Co-editor (with Michael Morgan and J. R. Brent Ritchie), The Tourism and Leisure Experience: Consumer and Managerial Perspectives, 2010, Channel View, Bristol,
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From: Peter Lugosi
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 4:44 PM
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Subject: Book available for review
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for cross posting. I have a copy of "Moving Pictures/Stopping Places: Hotels and Motels on Film", edited by David Clarke, Valerie Crawford Pfannhauser and Marcus Doel available for review for the Hospitality & Society Journal. We are looking for a professional but critical review, about 800 words long, that discusses the book and its contribution to various fields (with particular reference to hospitality). We would like the review within 2 months. Details of the book are below and I have also included a link to the journal:
"Mobility has long been a defining feature of modern societies, yet remarkably little attention has been paid to the various 'stopping places'—hotels, motels, and the like—that this mobility presupposes. If the paradoxical qualities of fixed places dedicated to facilitating movement have been overlooked by a variety of commentators, film-makers have shown remarkable prescience and consistency in engaging with these 'still points' around which the world is made to turn. Hotels and motels play a central role in a multitude of films, ranging across an immensely wide variety of genres, eras, and national cinemas. Whereas previous film theorists have focused on the movement implied by road movies and similar genres, the outstanding contributions to this volume extend the recent engagement with space and place in film studies, providing a series of fascinating explorations of the cultural significance of stopping places, both on screen and off. Ranging from the mythical elegance of the Grand Hotel, through the uncanny spaces of the Bates motel, to Korean 'love motels,' the wealth of insights, from a variety of theoretical perspectives, that this volume delivers is set to change our understanding of the role played by stopping places in an increasingly fluid world."
See the publisher's website for more details about the book: http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739128558&thepassedurl=[thepassedurl]
Link to the journal: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=194/view,page=2/
If you are interested in writing a review could you please send me some details about yourself.
All the best,
Peter
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Peter Lugosi, PhD
Senior Lecturer
School of Tourism
Bournemouth University
Talbot Campus
Fern Barrow
Poole
Dorset
BH12 5BB
Tel. 01202 961888
Fax. 01202 515707
Co-editor (with Michael Morgan and J. R. Brent Ritchie) The Tourism and Leisure Experience: Consumer and Managerial Perspectives, 2010, Channel View, Bristol, http://www.channelviewpublications.com/display.asp?isb=9781845411480
Publications, presentations and other outputs: http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/view/author/9a2f699f3084e45a0632fe83aea2118f.html
Controversies and Reviews Editor, Hospitality & Society: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=194/view,page=2/
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