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JFK and dark tourism: A fascination with assassination
Malcolm Foley,J. John Lennon +1 more
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In this paper, the authors explore the phenomenon of dark tourism and analyse evidence of its existence in the context of sites associated with the life and death of the former US President, John F. Kennedy (JFK).Abstract:
This paper sets out to explore the phenomenon that the authors have entitled Dark Tourism and to analyse evidence of its existence in the context of sites associated with the life and death of the former US President, John F. Kennedy (JFK). These sites present front‐line staff, curators, and development bodies with dilemmas concerning legitimacy of presentation/representation and lead to questions about the, often cited, educational mission, of such attractions. The media has had a central role in the development of this phenomenon and documentation and illustration via news and film has been central to much of the interpretation of JFK and the Kennedys. This paper considers media fascination with this subject and examines exploitation of this interest at three, contrasting sites.read more
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Consuming dark tourism: A Thanatological Perspective
Philip R. Stone,Richard Sharpley +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a model of dark tourism consumption within a thanatological framework is proposed as a basis for further theoretical and empirical analysis of the dark touristic experiences in modern societies.
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Progress in dark tourism and thanatourism research: An uneasy relationship with heritage tourism
TL;DR: This article reviewed the evolution of the concepts of dark tourism and thanatourism, highlighting similarities and differences between them, and argued that two decades of research have not convincingly demonstrated that dark tourists are distinct forms of tourism, and in many ways they appear to be little different from heritage tourism.
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Dark tourism and significant other death: towards a model of mortality mediation.
TL;DR: The authors argue that dark tourism is a mediating institution that not only provides a physical place to link the living with the dead, but also allows a cognitive space for the Self to construct contemporary ontological meanings of mortality.
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The Darker Side of Travel: The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism
Richard Sharpley,Philip R. Stone +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Sharpley et al. introduce dark tourism and political ideology towards a governance model, and present the Macabre: interpretation, kitschification, authenticity and authenticity.
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Gazing on communism: Heritage tourism and post-communist identities in Germany, Hungary and Romania
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the strategies which different countries (Germany, Hungary and Romania) have adopted to negotiate and accommodate such tourism without compromising their post-communist identities.
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Ways of escape : modern transformations in leisure and travel
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that leisure behaviour has been shaped by programmes of moral regulation in the middle ages and the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and that women's influence in leisure and travel is negligible.
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Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory
TL;DR: Zelizer as discussed by the authors explores the way we learned about and came to make sense of the killing of the president "Covering the Body" (the title refers to the charge given journalists to follow a president) is a powerful reassessment of the media's role in shaping our collective memory of the assassination-at the same time it used the assassination coverage to legitimize its own role as official interpreter of American reality.
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Covering the Body: The Kennedy Assassination, the Media, and the Shaping of Collective Memory. By Barbie Zelizer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992. viii, 299 pp. Cloth, $29.95 and Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Fast. By Michael Schudson. New York: BasicBooks, 1992. xiv, 282 pp. $24.00
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Collective Memory and the Actual Past
TL;DR: The question of why it matters whether a given narrative corresponds to historical actuality was first raised by as discussed by the authors, and the answer is that "the question is not whether it ever matters, if it does, that an authoritative narrative correspond to history actuality".