Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City by Robert C. Davis, Garry R. Marvin

Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City



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Venice, the Tourist Maze: A Cultural Critique of the World's Most Touristed City Robert C. Davis, Garry R. Marvin
Language: English
Page: 372
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0520241207, 9780520241206
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"Venice, the Tourist Maze is a popular history of the tragic, at times comic, impact of mass tourism on Venice. The outlook for Venice as a living city seems bleak, but the story is fascinating. Davis and Marvin draw on everything from Baedekers to the local papers and contemporary interviews to examine the effect of this flood of people on urban experience and the delicate fabric of the city, depicting at best an aestheticized museum city, at worst a degraded theme park. In effect, the authors argue, Venice survives as a surreal image of itself. This is a fascinating and well-written book."--Carol Lansing, author of Power & Purity: Cathar Heresy in Medieval Italy

"Anyone inclined to pick up this book will experience over and over in the course of reading it shivers of intellectual play. For some, half the stimulation comes with the dismantling of a worn-out legend: Venice, the Most Romantic City in the World. For others, it will come while musing on the vivid contradictions revealing that what is good for Venice in the short term--revenue from tourism--is killing the city in the ever nearer long term. The authors may unwittingly encourage even more tourists to go to Venice for the most post-modern of reasons: to observe tourists observing the most touristed city in the world. Venice, The Tourist Maze is engrossing, amusing, fascinating, and troubling."--Sally McKee, author of Uncommon Dominion, Venetian Crete and the Myth of Ethnic Purity

About the Author

Robert C. Davis is Professor of Italian History at Ohio State University. He is the coeditor of The Jews of Early Modern Venice (2001) and Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (1998) and the author of Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters (2003), The War of the Fists (1994), and Shipbuilders of the Venetian Arsenal (1991). Garry R. Marvin is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Surrey Roehampton. His books include Bullfight (1994), Coping with Spain (1990), and, with Bob Mullan, Zoo Culture (1998).

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