FrontCover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Scope of the study -- Film, tourism and postmodernism -- Chapter outline -- Notes -- Early New Zealand Films and Western Voy(ag) -- Introduction -- New Zealand, or the "world in a nutshell" -- New Zealanders: "eternal tourists and proud pioneers" -- The Maori: between ethnographic and tourist romance -- Empty landscapes and (post)colonial enterprises -- 1940-1990: New Zealand Film Landscapes for 'Cinenauts' -- Introduction -- From the National Film Unit to the Film Commission -- Mapping New Zealand landscapes -- Place versus space -- Escape from the narrative space. -- Transitional space, porous space: the road -- The city, or New Zealand dystopia -- Natural places and natural spaces: the mountain and -- Journey to the centre of the film: the 'cinenauts' -- The Legacy of The Piano: Film-Tourist Geographies and the Aesthetic of the Sublime -- Introduction -- Methodological premises -- Ada McGrath: a Victorian adventure tourist in New Zealand -- Nature, space and narrative -- Locations and national identity -- Framing the beach -- Return to the beach: Memory and Desire -- Conclusions -- From Ngati to Whale Rider: The Filmic Journey Indigenous Traveller -- Introduction -- Fourth Cinema -- Whale Rider: indigenous locations and global imaginary -- Whangara: between reality and hyper-reality -- Ethnographic, neo-colonial and tourist gazes -- The indigenous traveller -- The hybrid traveller -- The Western traveller -- Conclusions -- From Mt. Fuji to Mt. Taranaki: Dépaysement and Worship in The Last Samurai -- Introduction -- The Last Samurai in Taranaki -- The Last Samurai and tourist imagination -- From Mt. Taranaki to Mt. Fuji: negotiating the meaning -- Celebrity worship.

The management of film-induced tourism: critical factors. -- Conclusions -- 'Welcome to New Zealand, Home of Middle Earth': Heterotopian Impulse, Western Anxiety and Spatial Identity in The Lord of the Rings -- Introduction -- The Lord of the Rings: merchandising and film franchise -- Style, narrative and space in The Lord of the Rings -- 9/11 and Western anxiety -- New Zealand -- Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Filmography -- Primary films -- Secondary films -- Bibliography -- BackCover.