IMAX technology and the tourist gaze

Cultural Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 429-445

  Acland, Charles R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cinema; Epistemology; Postmodernism; Spectatorship; Technology; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749465326     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: 14664348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095023898335492     Document Type: Article

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