By Dean MacCannell
Empty assembly Grounds maintains Dean MacCannell's look for the cultural topic that's approximately to emerge from the stumble upon of the ex-primitive and the post-modern. It includes attention-grabbing chapters on `Cannibal Tours', `The wish to be Postmodern', the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C., the Statue of Liberty recovery venture and the urbanization of Yosemite Park.
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Of course, it is not possible to repress the past without denying the future. Thus, the central drive of postmodernity is to stop history in its tracks, and the central drive of postmodern tourism is to discover places that seem to exist outside of history: unspoiled nature and savagery. The opening scenes of Cannibal Tours neatly frame several postmodern figures. A voiceover taken from Radio Moscow world service announces a Paul Simon rock concert in Lenin Auditorium. But the film’s postmodern figure par excellence is a self-congratulating German tourist who comes as close as anyone in the film to being its central character.
His age is ambiguous. He might be old enough to have fought in World War II, a suspicion not allayed by his attire, which is designer re-issue of an Afrika Korps uniform. ) of National Socialism, and also to displace certain memories. He goes where the German army was not able to go, expressing a kind of laid-back contentment when he encounters a fascist regime: ‘I liked Chile. Next year Middle America…’. Only the United States is not mentioned in his recounting of his itineraries. He asks his Iatmul Cannibalism today 27 guide, ‘Where have you killed the people?
The opening scenes of Cannibal Tours neatly frame several postmodern figures. A voiceover taken from Radio Moscow world service announces a Paul Simon rock concert in Lenin Auditorium. But the film’s postmodern figure par excellence is a self-congratulating German tourist who comes as close as anyone in the film to being its central character. He compulsively records his travel experiences on film while speaking into a hand-held tape recorder. His age is ambiguous. He might be old enough to have fought in World War II, a suspicion not allayed by his attire, which is designer re-issue of an Afrika Korps uniform.