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AFFECTIVE LANDSCAPES
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.
Erik Champion is Enterprise Fellow at University of South Australia, Emeritus
Professor at Curtin University, Australia, and formerly UNESCO Chair and
Visualisation Theme Leader of the Curtin Institute of Computation. His recent
books are Rethinking Virtual Places (2021), Organic Design in Twentieth-Century
Nordic Architecture (Routledge, 2019), Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual
Heritage (Routledge, 2016), and Playing With the Past (2011). He is the editor
of Virtual Heritage: A Guide (2021), The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places
(Routledge, 2019), and Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism (2012), and the
co-editor of Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2018).
Christina Lee is Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at Curtin
University, Australia. She is the author of Screening Generation X: The Politics and
Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema (2010), and the editor of Violating
Time: History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema (2012) and Spectral Spaces and
Hauntings: The Affects of Absence (Routledge, 2017). Her research interests include
spaces of imagination and spectrality (including screen tourism sites), popular
culture, and fandom.
Jane Stadler is Honorary Professor of Film and Media Studies at The University
of Queensland in Australia. She led a collaborative Australian Research Council
project on landscape and location in Australian cinema, literature, and theatre
(2011–2014) and co-authored Imagined Landscapes: Geovisualizing Australian Spatial
Narratives (2016). She is the author of Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience,
Narrative Film and Ethics (2008) and the co-author of Screen Media (2009) and Media
and Society (2016). Her recent research focuses on the audience’s affective responses
to cinema.
Robert Moses Peaslee is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism
and Creative Media Industries at Texas Tech University, USA. He is the co-editor
of The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime (2015), The Supervillain
Reader (2020), and Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of
Spider-Man (2012). He also co-edited Marvel Comics Into Film: Essays on Adaptations
Since the 1940s (2016). Robert studies relationships between media and place, as
well as popular culture, adaptation, and fandom.
Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series
Series editor: Dallen J. Timothy
Arizona State University, USA
The Routledge Cultural Heritage and Tourism Series offers an interdisciplinary
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aspects of cultural heritage-based tourism. This series encourages new and t heoretical
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vibrancy of heritage, tourism and cultural studies. It aims to foster discussions about
both tangible and intangible heritages, and all of their management, conservation,
interpretation, political, conflict, consumption and identity challenges, opportunities
and implications. This series interprets heritage broadly and caters to the needs of
upper-level students, academic researchers, and policy makers.
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Edited by Gyan Nyaupane and Dallen J. Timothy
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Jian Ming Luo
Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes
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SCREEN TOURISM AND
AFFECTIVE LANDSCAPES
The Real, the Virtual, and the
Cinematic
Edited by Erik Champion, Christina Lee,
Jane Stadler, and Robert Moses Peaslee
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CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
List of Contributors xii
Acknowledgements xvi
1 Introduction 1
Erik Champion, Christina Lee, Jane Stadler,
and Robert Moses Peaslee
2 Screen Tourism: Marketing the Moods and Myths
of Magic Places 9
Ian Brodie
3 Windshield Tourism Goes Viral: On YouTube Scenic
Drive Videos of U.S. National Parks 27
Kornelia Boczkowska
4 “Forever Bali”: Surf Tourism and Morning of the Earth (1972) 46
Gemma Blackwood
5 Locating Fellini: Affect, Cinecittà, and the Cinematic
Pilgrimage 64
Alberto Zambenedetti
viii Contents
6 Walking in Cary Grant’s Footsteps: The Looking for Archie
Walking Tour 81
Charlotte Crofts
7 Vancouver Unmoored: Hollywood North as a Site
of Spectres 104
Erin Ashenhurst
8 Always the Desert – Creating Affective Landscapes
in Breaking Bad 121
Jane Lovell and Kenneth Fox
9 Nordic Noir and Miserable Landscape Tourism 136
Can-Seng Ooi, Richard Ek, and Mia Larson
10 Serial Killer Cinema and Dark Tourism: The Affective
Contours of Genre and Place 158
Jane Stadler and Lesley Hawkes
11 Down the Rabbit Hole: Disneyland Gangs, Affective
Spaces, and Covid-19 180
Stephanie Williams-Turkowski
12 Immersive Worlds and Sites of Participatory Culture:
The Evolution of Screen Tourism and Theme Parks 199
Carissa Baker, Ray Eddy, and David Bailey
13 Hobbiton 2.0, 20 Years On: Authenticity and Immersive
Themed Space 217
Robert Moses Peaslee and Bobby Schweizer
14 Swords, Sandals, and Selfies: Videogame-Induced Tourism 238
Erik Champion
Index 253
LIST OF FIGURES
2.1 Evocative scenes create memories. The mountains of Glencoe
have appeared in film and television for over 70 years 10
2.2 Where literary description meets film adaptation. The Green
Dragon Inn at Hobbiton Movie Set near Matamata, New Zealand 12
2.3 Mount Nicholas Station, on the banks of Lake Wakatipu in
New Zealand, becomes a Scottish loch for The Water Horse 16
2.4 Mount Ngauruhoe creates its own mythology. Despite a
likeness to the Tolkien Mount Doom, the mountain does not
appear in the film trilogy. 18
2.5 A local hotel in Mount Barker, Western Australia, used in the
film Rams 19
2.6 The Last King – telling a 1,000-year-old story and utilizing
historic landscapes in Norway. (Left to Right) Skjervald
( Jacob Oftebro), Baby Håkon ( Jonathan Oskar Dahlgren), and
Torstein (Kristofer Hivju) 22
2.7 Exploring remote film locations in the comfort of your own
home. The landscape that appeared in Paris, Texas, as seen from
Microsoft Flight Simulator (Xbox). 23
4.1 Surfers Rusty Miller and Stephen Cooney discovering the surf
at Uluwatu, Bali 48
4.2 Representing a Balinese local in Morning of the Earth 57
5.1 Photograph of the open-air Cinecittà pool 72
5.2 Sceneframe of Trevi Fountain 76
6.1 The Looking for Archie map, designed by Eleanor
Elliot-Rathbone 82
6.2 Participants looking at maps next to Bristol Cathedral on
College Green 84
