Between Imaginative and Corporeal Slum Tour: Vocabularies of Favela Tourism in City of God

• Authors: Aleksandra Gutowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper examines the impact of cinematic representations of impoverished areas of Rio de Janeiro in the film City of God on the growth of the demand for favela tours in this city. In the first two parts, I describe postmodern changes in culture, society and economy and theoretical explanations of production and consumption of tourist attractions. In the third part, I define contemporary practices of slum tourism and examine three examples of convergence of literal versus literary and visual slumming. In the last part, I analyse the narratives of City of God movie, taking into consideration the film-making process.

Keywords

EN

tourist attraction; gaze; favela tour; City of God; Rio de Janeiro

• Publisher: Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Hemispheres. Studies on Cultures and Societies
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 28
• Pages: 15-43

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Gutowska

• Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Aacdemy of Sciences, Warsaw