08 - Le Tour du monde. Médias et voyages
Catherine Bertho-Lavenir et Guy Latry
Côte d’Argent, Côte d’Émeraude : les zones balnéaires entre nom de marque et identité littéraire
Le Temps des médias n°8, printemps 2007, p.105-117Between 1860 and 1910 railway stations, hotels, and speculative buildings were developing at a rapid pace in some areas of the french coast. Following the model of the “Côte d’Azur” these places were given new names such as “Cote d’Argent” (between Arcachon and Hossegor) or “Côte d’Emeraude” (around Dinard). These names were chosen exactly as brand name, with the methods of what was then called “la reclame” but serious writers and well known “hommes de lettres” were also involved in the process of building and spreading an attractive picture of these coasts in order to seduce tourists and insure the economical development of the places. This essay analyzes how such different peoples as poets, writers, sportsmen, businessmen, historians and political representatives were asked to cooperate, involving the national and the local level, the legitimate culture and the commercial know-how, the old society of writers and historians and the new one of sportsmen and journalists, buiding by the way a new culture of advertisement.
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