The island of Bali has long been characterized in the West as the last 'paradise' on earth, but there is far more to this small Indonesian province. This book offers a study of Balinese tourism, society, and character.
Helps readers understand mass media and the texts they carry. This book covers seminal figures, concepts and scholarship in mass media studies, including Vladimir Propp, Mikhail Bakhtin, Raymond Williams, Fredric Jameson, and Stuart Hall.
A multidisciplinary cultural studies approach, examining ocean cruising from economic, semiotic, sociological, psychoanalytic and marketing perspectives, and offering insights not provided by the more traditional sociological approaches to the subject.