Culture, Heritage and Representation: Perspectives on Visuality and the Past

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The 'visual' has long played a crucial role in forming experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. Images convey meaning within a range of practices, including tourism, identity construction, the popularization of the past through a variety of media, and the memorialization of events. However, despite the central role of 'the visual' in these contexts, it has been largely neglected in heritage literature. This edited collection is the first to explore the production, use and consumption of visual imagery as an integral part of heritage. Drawing on case studies from around the world, it provides a multidisciplinary analysis of heritage representations, combining complex understandings of the 'visual' from a wide range of disciplines, including heritage studies, sociology and cultural studies perspectives. In doing so, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological tools necessary for understanding visual imagery within its cultural context. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction: A Visual Heritage Part I Relocating the Visual 2 Inside/Outside: Ways of Seeing the World 3 People-Place-Past: The Visitor Experience of Cultural Heritage 4 The Perpetual Performance and Emergence of Heritage Part II Representation and Substitution 5 The Popular Memory of the Western Front: Archaeology and European Heritage 6 Historiography and Virtuality 7 Visualizing the Past: Baudrillard, Intensities of the Hyper-real and the Erosion of Historicity Part III Visual Culture and Heritage Tourism 8 ‘Wild On’ the Beach: Discourses of Desire, Sexuality and Liminality 9 Authenticity, the Media and Heritage Tourism: Robin Hood and Brother Cadfael as Midlands Tourist Magnets 10 Branding the Past: The Visual Imagery of England’s Heritage 11 Time Machines and Space Craft: Navigating the Spaces of Heritage Tourism Performance 12 The Tourist as Juggler in a Hall of Mirrors: Looking Through Images at the Self Part IV Constructing Place 13 The Story behind the Picture: Preferences for the Visual Display at Heritage Sites 14 Site Seeing: Street Walking Through a Low-Visibility Landscape 15 Constructing Rhodes: Heritage Tourism and Visuality Index