Global mountain cinema

The first academic book to approach mountain film culture from transgeneric, transnational, ecotritical, and transmedial perspectives Reconsiders the legacy of the mountain film by exploring mountains as sites of cinematic innovation across a variety of genres and aesthetic traditionsTraces cinemati...

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Weitere Verfasser: Fuchs, Michael (MitwirkendeR) , Gunning, Tom (MitwirkendeR) , Haque, Kamaal (HerausgeberIn, MitwirkendeR) , Höbusch, Harald (MitwirkendeR) , Liu, Mia Yinxing (MitwirkendeR) , Marini, Anna Marta (MitwirkendeR) , Mehrbrey, Sophia (MitwirkendeR) , Mossner, Alexa Weik von (MitwirkendeR) , Müller, Eva-Maria (MitwirkendeR) , Peabody, Seth (MitwirkendeR) , Poole, Ralph J. (MitwirkendeR) , Quendler, Christian (HerausgeberIn, MitwirkendeR) , Rak, Julie (MitwirkendeR) , Reynolds, Daniel (MitwirkendeR) , Schaumann, Caroline (HerausgeberIn, MitwirkendeR) , Shen, Qinna (MitwirkendeR) , Winkler, Daniel (MitwirkendeR)
Dokumenttyp: Book/Monograph
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2025]
Schriftenreihe:Traditions in World Cinema TWC
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1515/9781399519991
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Verfasserangaben:ed. by Caroline Schaumann, Kamaal Haque, Christian Quendler
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I GENRE
  • 1. CINEMATIC MOUNTAINS: THE WORLD AND VISION FROM A HEIGHT
  • 2. SKI COMEDY: ON THE LIGHT SIDE OF MOUNTAIN FILM
  • 3. HIGH AND LOW: POROSITY IN THE NEAPOLITAN ANTHOLOGY FILM I VESUVIANI (THE VESUVIANS, 1997) AND MARIO MARTONE’S EPISODE “THE ASCENT”
  • 4. INVERSIONS OF MOUNTAIN CINEMA: POST-HUMANIST ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN ZHAO LIANG’S BEHEMOTH (2015)
  • PART II NATION
  • 5. CREATIVE GEOGRAPHY AND VOLCANIC MOUNTAINS: ARNOLD FANCK’S DIE TOCHTER DES SAMURAI (1937) AS MOUNTAIN FILM
  • 6. SCALING THE MOUNTAIN, ELEVATING THE NATION: THE “GOLDEN AGE OF HIMALAYAN CLIMBING” ON FILM
  • 7. UNSHAMING BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: ROCKING HEIMAT IN TRANSNATIONAL COMING-OUT MOUNTAIN MOVIES
  • 8. TRANSCULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS OF MOUNTAIN AESTHETICS IN TIGER ZINDA HAI (2017)
  • PART III ENVIRONMENT
  • 9. LENI RIEFENSTAHL’S MOUNTAIN FILMS: ECOLOGIZING THE GENRE
  • 10. A GLACIAL PACE? MOUNTAIN CINEMA AND THE IMAGINATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE
  • 11. FROM LOCUS AMOENUS TO LOCUS ABSURDUM: SKIING AT THE END OF NATURE IN RUBEN ÖSTLUND’S FORCE MAJEURE (2014)
  • 12. FESTIVAL OBSCURA: GENDER IN FESTIVAL-DRIVEN MOUNTAINEERING DOCUMENTARIES
  • PART IV MEDIA
  • 13. THE EVENING RAINS IN BASHAN: MOUNTAINS IN CHINESE CINEMA IN 1980
  • 14. FILM, MEMORY, AND INTERMEDIALITY: EXPLORING THE ANDES IN LA CORDILLERA DE LOS SUEÑOS (2019)
  • 15. LIBERATING THE CAPTURED IMAGE: BERGFILM LEGACIES AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN FREE SOLO (2018) AND THE ALPINIST (2021)
  • 16. GEOGRAPHICAL PLATFORMS, EMBODIED INFRASTRUCTURES: ON THE MOUNTAINS IN DEATH STRANDING (2019)
  • INDEX