Creating an event out of nothing happening: An exploration of the category 'event' through tourist imagery of the Zuiderzee region (The Netherlands), 1874-1914

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Abstract

Taking a 1906 advertising for a tourist trip as starting point, the author explores the possible uses of the term ‘event’ for discussions of tourist imagery at the time of early cinema. On first sight, traveling – be it armchair travel or “real” travel – seemed to be a domain to which the concept of event can be applied, at least insofar as the extraordinary experience and thereby the experience-as-event is highlighted. When looking deeper into the use that is made of the “eventness” and the function the extraordinary plays in tourism, tourist imagery, and tourist events, it becomes apparent that “event” needs to be conceptualized other than when used to describe extraordinary news incidents or ceremonies. “Event” then needs to be conceptualized as a qualitative category rather than a temporal one. If applied to research on tourism and travelogues, a careful conceptualization of the term “event” is needed that renders justice to the repetitive logic of these domains.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLa construcció de l'actualitat en el cinema dels orígens / The Construction of News in Early Cinema / La construcción de la actualidad en el cine de los orígenes
EditorsÀngel Quintana, Jordi Pons
Place of PublicationGirona
PublisherFundació Mueseu del Cinema-Col.lectió Tomàs Mallol & Ajuntament de Girona
Pages139-150
Number of pages12
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event8th International Seminar on the Origens and History of Cinema - Girona, Spain
Duration: 31 Mar 20111 Apr 2011

Conference

Conference8th International Seminar on the Origens and History of Cinema
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGirona
Period31/03/111/04/11

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