Places of the imagination: An ethnography of the TV detective tour

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-52

  Reijnders, Stijn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Imagination; Lieux de m moire; Media pilgrimage; Travel; TV detective

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; TELEVISION; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

EID: 75849121388     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474009349998     Document Type: Article

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55. See also Hausladen, 'Where the bodies lie'.
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74. Interview with Ewa-Gun Westford, Ystad 20/09/07. Transcript available for inspection on application to the author.
75. According to Ernest Mandell, crime fiction mirrors a middle-class ideology and works as an apology for the social order of bourgeois society.
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