Through the Balkan States: Home movies as travel texts and tourism histories in the Mediterranean, c.1923-39

Tourist Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-36

  Nicholson, Heather Norris ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amateur cine film; Balkans; identities; representation; tourism history; travel narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845275091     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797606070584     Document Type: Article

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