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... This chapter expands the lens of analysis to trace the effects of the rise of tourism and the addition of military museums that together reconfigure the Pearl Harbor area into something like a military theme park focused on the bombing attack and the Pacific War. The arrival of the USS Missouri...

... Chapter 2 suggests that the experience of being in LA unlocks some of VR’s more ineffable qualities. The architectural façades of the movie set and theme park extend throughout the city, offering a glimpse of other places and other times while moving through the urban landscape. Building...

... This chapter is a visual excavation of Kang Je-gyu’s film about the Korean War, Taegukgi (2004), in relation to the film sets, theme parks, and exhibitions that drew large audiences in the wake of the film’s box-office success. Looking at material traces of the film’s depiction of the Korean...

..., where it functions in Korea’s imagining of its relationships with China and Japan. remembrance historical sites Korean national division This chapter is a visual excavation of Kang Je-gyu’s film about the Korean War, Taegukgi (2004), in relation to the film sets, theme parks...

..., such as that of the Japanese American experience with internment or native Hawaiian perspectives on the harbor as a place of dispossession and alienation in the face of an expanding American empire. At the same time, the remaking of Pearl Harbor as a kind of Pacific War theme park as the war generation passes away...

... virtual reality Chapter 2 suggests that the experience of being in LA unlocks some of VR’s more ineffable qualities. The architectural façades of the movie set and theme park extend throughout the city, offering a glimpse of other places and other times while moving through the urban landscape...

... Chapter 8 uses the analytical tools of feminist geography to reflect on the implications presented throughout the book, as well as to examine gendered-spatial dimensions in iconic representations of the 2013 Taksim Gezi Park protests in Istanbul. The chapter reveals the gendered and sexual...

... constructions of São Paulo’s history that emerged during the IV Centenário, including the elaborate Historical Exposition in the newly inaugurated Ibirapuera Park, popular radio programs, and newspaper supplements. With few exceptions, these narratives minimized the role of people of African descent...