Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes : The Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic

This book explores ways in which screen-based storyworlds transfix, transform, and transport us imaginatively, physically, and virtually to the places they depict or film. Topics include fantasy quests in computer games, celebrity walking tours, dark tourism sites, Hobbiton as theme park, surf movies, and social gangs of Disneyland. How physical, virtual, and imagined locations create a sense of place through their immediate experience or visitation is undergoing a revolution in technology, travel modes, and tourism behaviour. This edited collection explores the rapidly evolving field of screen tourism and the affective impact of landscape, with provocative questions and investigations of social groups, fan culture, new technology, and the wider changing trends in screen tourism. We provide critical examples of affective landscapes across a wide range of mediums (from the big screen to the small screen) and locations. This book will appeal to students and scholars in film and tourism, as well as geography, design, media and communication studies, game studies, and digital humanities. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series 5 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 List of Figures 10 List of Contributors 13 Acknowledgements 17 1 Introduction 18 2 Screen Tourism: Marketing the Moods and Myths of Magic Places 26 3 Windshield Tourism Goes Viral: On YouTube Scenic Drive Videos of U.S. National Parks 44 4 “Forever Bali”: Surf Tourism and Morning of the Earth (1972) 63 5 Locating Fellini: Affect, Cinecittà, and the Cinematic Pilgrimage 81 6 Walking in Cary Grant’s Footsteps: The Looking for Archie Walking Tour 98 7 Vancouver Unmoored: Hollywood North as a Site of Spectres 121 8 Always the Desert – Creating Affective Landscapes in Breaking Bad 138 9 Nordic Noir and Miserable Landscape Tourism 153 10 Serial Killer Cinema and Dark Tourism: The Affective Contours of Genre and Place 175 11 Down the Rabbit Hole: Disneyland Gangs, Affective Spaces, and Covid-19 197 12 Immersive Worlds and Sites of Participatory Culture: The Evolution of Screen Tourism and Theme Parks 216 13 Hobbiton 2.0, 20 Years On: Authenticity and Immersive Themed Space 234 14 Swords, Sandals, and Selfies: Videogame-Induced Tourism 255 Index 270