Public Places, Private Journeys: Ethnography, Entertainment, and the Tourist GazeIn this globally interconnected planet, we are increasingly able to access exotic locales without ever actually seeing these places firsthand. Instead, what we perceive to be fresh cultural experiences are actually second hand moments, filtered through mediums such as television, film, the internet, CD Roms, and various other media. Ellen Strain posits that the images in film and popular culture not only fill in the gaps of a person's first hand or