CFP: Tourism and Popular Fiction: 1945 to the Present (UK) (2/16/04; 5/8/04)

From: Nicole and Robin (nm001c8762@blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 07:11:24 EST


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

Deadline for abstracts: February 16, 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;
E-mail: N.D.Matthews@livjm.ac.uk or visit http://www.arpf.org.uk

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