7 Wish It Were Here: Fan Travel Vlogs as Virtual Spaces of Popular Culture Tourism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Prologue
5. 1 Introduction to Popular Culture Destinations: Contexts, Perspectives and Insights 1
6. Part 1: Fandoms and Popular Culture Tourism Placemaking
7. 2 Commemorating Rock Stars: Exploring Fan Interactions at AC/DC and Chrissie Amphlett Lanes, Melbourne, Australia 15
8. 3 The Emergence of Fan Pilgrimage Sites – Unintended and Intended 31
9. Part 2: Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys of Fans
10. 4 ‘Walking Battlefield Sites’: An Experience of Secular Pilgrimage 53
11. 5 Gloomy or Exciting: Image, Engagement and Violent TV Drama in a Heritage Destination Setting 75
12. 6 Heritage and Pilgrimage Journeys in Hawaii: Where the Secular and Sacred Intersect 95
13. Part 3: Digitalisation in Popular Culture Destinations
14. 7 Wish It Were Here: Fan Travel Vlogs as Virtual Spaces of Popular Culture Tourism 113
15. 8 @Bluey_Locations: The Brisbane Local as Bluey Tourist 129
16. 9 Millennials’ Responses to Popular Culture-Induced Visual and Verbal Cues: An Eye-Tracking Investigation 146
17. Part 4: Popular Culture Tourism Spaces and Imaginaries of the World
18. 10 (Re)Celebrating Baseball’s Rural Nostalgia: Placemaking and Touristifi cation in the Cornfi elds of Iowa 173
19. 11 Climate Disaster Films and Scholarly-Virtual Pilgrimage to Viable Planetary Futures 196
20. Epilogue
21. 12 Conclusions for Popular Culture Tourism Research: Progress and Problematics 215
22. Index 228