Destination Dictatorship : The Spectacle of Spain's Tourist Boom and the Reinvention of Difference.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture Series .
- SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture Series .
Intro -- Destination Dictatorship -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1. TOURISM AS AN ART OF GOVERNING -- 1. Prosperity and Freedom under Franco: The Grand Invention of Tourism -- 2. On the Public Persona and Political Theory of a Minister of Information and Tourism: Manuel Fraga Iribarne's"Pedagogy of Leisure" -- PART 2. FINANCIAL, IDEOLOGICAL,AND LIBIDINAL INVESTMENTS -- 3. The Power of Inauthenticity: The "Spain Is Different"Tourism Campaign as a Change of Paradigm -- 4. Blondes in Bikinis and Beachside Don Juans: From the Comedy of Sex Tourism to a State of Perversion -- Epilogue: Tourism, Nostalgia, and Historical Memory -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Examines the relationship of Spain's 1960s tourist boom to Franco's right-wing dictatorship.