Cinematic cruising: Reel imagination and real experience for pleasure on the high seas
The experiences of cruise ship passengers are influenced by cinematic representations and intensified and (re)produced by cruise operators. This paper conceptualises cinematic cruising as a phenomenon of reel and real spaces between imagination and experience for pleasure on the high seas. To date, the influence of cinematic representations on the experience of cruise passengers has not yet been studied in detail. To address this, our argument builds on the comparability of cinemas and cruise ships. They share similar characteristics as modern and postmodern places, as heterotopias, and as places of dreams. Both are places of illusion, places of compensation, and places where one can escape…
Rick’s Café Américain, ein Nachtclub in New York City?
Richard Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) betreibt in der Hafenstadt Casablanca im franzosischen Protektorat Marokko den Nachtclub Rick’s Cafe Americain. Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), seine grose Liebe, sah er das letzte Mal in Paris im Restaurant La Belle Aurore kurz bevor die ‚Deutsche Wehrmacht‘ im Juni 1940 einmarschierte. Sie hatte sich gegen die gemeinsame Flucht entschieden und ihn wegen ihres Ehemannes, den sie fur tot gehalten hatte, verlassen.