Global Mountain Cinema
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399519977
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 47 black and white illustrations 666
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Short description:
The first academic book to approach mountain film culture from transgeneric, transnational, ecocritical and transmedial perspectives.
MoreLong description:
This book is dedicated to the particular challenges and opportunities mountains raise for histories and theories of cinema. In German-speaking countries, the relationship between mountains and cinema has been largely reduced to a small canon of Alpine filmmakers whose work has been categorized as the Classical Bergfilm. However, from a transnational and transgeneric perspective, the field of mountain cinema is not only much richer and more diverse, but also addresses questions that are vital to film and media studies and inform postcolonial and environmental discourses in the Anthropocene. In this vein, our volume goes beyond national contexts to provide a timely and much-needed investigation into the generic innovations and intersectional negotiations of national, ethnic, and gender norms that take place in mountain cinema and its related media forms.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Christian Quendler, Caroline Schaumann and Kamaal Haque
Part I. Genre
1. Cinematic Mountains: The World and Vision from a Height
Tom Gunning
2. Ski Comedy: On the Light Side of Mountain Film
Eva-Maria Müller
3. High and Low: Porosity in the Neapolitan Anthology Film I vesuviani (The Vesuvians, 1997) and Mario Martone’s Episode 'The Ascent'
Daniel Winkler
4. Inversions of Mountain Cinema: Post-Humanist Ethics and Aesthetics in Zhao Liang’s Behemoth (2015)
Christian Quendler
Part II. Nation
5. Creative Geography and Volcanic Mountains: Arnold Fanck’s Die Tochter des Samurai (1937) as Mountain Film
Qinna Shen
6. Scaling the Mountain, Elevating the Nation: The ‘Golden Age of Himalayan Climbing’ on Film
Harald Höbusch
7. Unshaming Brokeback Mountain: Rocking Heimat in Transnational Coming-Out Mountain Movies
Ralph J. Poole
8. Transcultural Negotiations of Mountain Aesthetics in Tiger Zinda Hai
Sophia Mehrbrey
Part III. Environment
9. Leni Riefenstahl’s Mountain Films: Ecologizing the Genre
Kamaal Haque
10. A Glacial Pace? Mountain Cinema and the Imagination of Climate Change
Alexa Weik von Mossner
11. From Locus Amoenus to Locus Absurdum: Skiing at the End of Nature in Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure (2014)
Caroline Schaumann
12. Festival Obscura: Gender in Festival-Driven Mountaineering Documentaries
Julie Rak
Part IV. Media
13. The Evening Rains in Bashan: Mountains in Chinese Cinema in 1980
Mia Yinxing Liu
14. Film, Memory, and Intermediality: Exploring the Andes in La cordillera de los sueños (2019)
Michael Fuchs and Anna Marini
15. Liberating the Captured Image: Bergfilm Legacies and Digital Technologies in Free Solo (2018) and The Alpinist (2021)
Seth Peabody
16. Geological Platforms, Embodied Infrastructures: On the Mountains in Death Stranding (2019)
Daniel Reynolds
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