Overview: Applies dark tourism to the virtual realm, breaking open new territory on the cutting edge of Memory Studies.Addresses how virtual pilgrimages influence consumers, readers, viewers, and gamers.Explore.This book takes the concept of “dark tourism”—journeys to sites of death, suffering, and calamity—in an innovative yet essential direction by applying it to the virtual realms of literature, film and television, the Internet, and gaming. Essays focus both on the creative construction of imaginary journeys and the historiographic and civic consequences of such memorializations. From Worl
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