Deleuze and the Film Tour

In Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Gilles Deleuze writes that cinema can "with impunity, bring us close to things or take us away from them and revolve around them, it suppresses both the anchoring of the subject and the horizon of the world." In this sense, he is writing about the cinema's capacity to allow the spectator to virtually travel, to sit in a movie theatre and allow the moving images before one to allow some kind of mental transportation, the so-called "magic carpet ride" of the cinematic and televisual moving image. And yet with the discursive rise of film-induced tourism at the end of the 1990s as a major new trend in global tourism, one might also argue that the virtual cinematic image can also allow the subject to actually travel, to bring him/her close to the landscapes shown in film, to have the ability to physically revolve around and tread in these spaces. In this type of actual travel, of course, the horizon of the world is brought somewhat closer than in the virtual travel that Deleuze delineates.