Abstract
Although a well-established activity, tourism that stems from the growing interest in filming locations featuring the U.S. national parks is still a niche. This makes a striking contrast with the unprecedented role of national parks, known for their cinematic appeal on the big screen, in creating iconic backdrops for films such as Star Wars (Death Valley and Redwood National Park), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Arches National Park), The Shining (Glacier National Park), and Thelma and Louise (Canyonlands). To fill this gap, I discuss how the evolution of film-induced tourism to virtual windshield tourism has affected tourists’ embodied experience of affective landscapes under the post-digital conditions, as evident in the recent proliferation of YouTube scenic drive videos of U.S. national parks.
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