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Author:   Kathryn N. McDaniel
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2018
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9783319746869

ISBN 10:   3319746863
Pages:   323
Publication Date:   04 May 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Virtual Dark Tourism: Disaster in the Space of the Imagination.- 2. “Some Lingering Influence in the Shunned House”: H. P. Lovecraft’s Three Invitations to Dark Tourism.- 3. “Imagined ghosts on unfrequented roads”: Gothic Tourism in Nineteenth-Century Cornwall.- 4. Through the Looking Glass Darkly: The Convergence of Past and Present in Connie Willis’s Time-Travel Novels.- 5. Cinematic Thanatourism and the Purloined Past: The “Game of Thrones Effect” and the Effect of Game of Thrones on History.- 6. Touring the “Burning Times”: The Rhetoric of Witch-Hunting Films, 1968-1973.- 7. “Did Those Portly Men Over There Once Rush This Position?”: Virtual Dark Tourism and D-Day Commemorations.- 8. Thanaviewing, the Aokigahara Forest, and Orientalism: Rhetorical Separations between the Self and the Other in The Forest.- 9. Experiencing Rwanda: Understanding Mass Atrocity at Nyamata.- 10. Hurricane Katrina Goes Digital: Memory, Dark Tours, and YouTube.- 11.A Virtual Dark Journey through the Debris: Playing Inside the Haiti Earthquake (2010).- 12. Surviving the Colonial Blizzard: The Alaskan Native Game Never Alone as a Walkthrough in Cultural Resistance.- 13. Virtually Historical: Performing Dark Tourism through Alternate History Games.- 14. Remembering Fictional History and Virtual War in EVE Online.

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Kathryn N. McDaniel is Andrew U. Thomas Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion at Marietta College, USA. A British historian specializing in intersections between popular culture and history, she is also co-editor of Harry Potter for Nerds 2.

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