Reel western fantasies: Portrait of a tourist imaginationin The Beach (2000)

Mobilities

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 121-142

  Tzanelli, Rodanthi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Cyberactivism; Film; Thailand; Tourism; Travel

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009628847     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450100500489296     Document Type: Article

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