Israeli Early Cinema

Sentimental journeys of the big-eyed sightseer: Tourism and the early cinema

Sentimental journeys of the big-eyed sightseer: Tourism and the early cinema - The representation of the tourist in the American cinema,1903-04, to reflect on the evident popularity of some kinds of travelogue in an entertainment milieu that marked by a  variety of ethnic and national stereotypes, and finally to point out what appears to have been a correspondence of sorts between the rising tourist industry and an emerging  continuous action  film narrative, a correspondence in which the image of Thomas Cook begins to merge with that of Adolph Zukor.