Hello all,

I hope you can join us for another UWE Moving Image Research Group event on Monday 23 October. Please circulate!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-screen-tourism-and-affective-landscapes-tickets-732122025687?aff=oddtdtcreator


BOOK LAUNCH: Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes
Join us for the UK Book launch with editor Erik Champion hosted by the UWE Moving Image Research Group

Date: Mon Oct 23 2023
Time: 18:00:00 GMT+0100 (British Summer Time)
Location: 1 Cannon's Road Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX

Join us for the launch of the new book Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes, edited by Erik Champion (et al), the book explores the fascinating world of screen tourism and its impact on our emotions and connection to landscapes. Through a series of essays by leading scholars and practitioners, the book examines how movies and TV shows influence our travel choices, the hidden stories behind famous filming locations, and their impact on our emotional experiences.

The book launch will feature presentations by editor Erik Champion, introducing the book and his chapter on Swords, Sandals, and Selfies: Videogame-Induced Tourism and contributor Charlotte Crofts, discussing her chapter, Walking in Cary Grant’s Footsteps: The Looking for Archie Walking Tour, followed by a panel discussion including other contributors. The evening will conclude with a reception, where guests will have the opportunity to meet the authors and learn more about the book.

We hope you will join us for this exciting event!

About the book – Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic, edited By Erik Champion, Christina Lee, Jane Stadler, Robert Moses Peaslee

This book explores ways in which screen-based storyworlds transfix, transform, and transport us imaginatively, physically, and virtually to the places they depict or film. Topics include fantasy quests in computer games, celebrity walking tours, dark tourism sites, Hobbiton as theme park, surf movies, and social gangs of Disneyland.

How physical, virtual, and imagined locations create a sense of place through their immediate experience or visitation is undergoing a revolution in technology, travel modes, and tourism behaviour. This edited collection explores the rapidly evolving field of screen tourism and the affective impact of landscape, with provocative questions and investigations of social groups, fan culture, new technology, and the wider changing trends in screen tourism. We provide critical examples of affective landscapes across a wide range of mediums (from the big screen to the small screen) and locations.

Available from Routledge and all the best book retailers.


You might also be interested in this online event on Tuesday 17 October, 7pm BST: You're The Tops: The Making of Night and Day

Join Professor Mark Glancy (Queen Mary University London) and Dr Kathrina Glitre (UWE Bristol) in a panel discussion about the making of Night and Day (dir. Michael Curtiz, 1946), the musical biopic in which Cary Grant plays Cole Porter. Grant's first colour film, it was also one of the biggest box office hits of the 1940s. Drawing on their archive research in the Herrick Library in Los Angeles, we will explore the film's production history and also unpack themes and issues raised by the film, contextualising both the representation (or lack thereof) of homosexuality and disability on screen.

This event supports an in-person screening of Night and Day on Saturday 21 October at St Mary Redcliffe Church in Cary Grant's hometown Bristol, UK, which will include live music from Keep it Vocal choirs, cocktails and chance to join in singing Cole Porter classics. For more information visit our website at www.carycomeshome.co.uk
 
You're The Tops: The Making of Night and Day (Event password = coleporter)
https://crowdcast.io/c/nightandday

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