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Global Mountain Cinema
Edited by Kamaal Haque, Christian Quendler and Caroline Schaumann
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Book Presentation:
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 traditions
• Traces cinematic production routes from Europe to Asia, the United States, and South America, moving beyond generic and national confines toward a transnational history of mountain cinema
• Analyzes the diverse and wide-ranging cinematic strategies used to depict the human impact on mountain environments
• Examines how mountainous ‘reinventions of cinema’ remediate environmental awareness and understanding
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.
About the authors:
Kamaal Haque is Associate Professor of German and affiliated faculty in Film & Media Studies at Dickinson College. He is the co-editor, with Christian Quendler, of a special issue of Colloquia Germanica entitled “Beyond the Classical Bergfilm” (2023). He has published numerous articles on the Bergfilm, most recently, “Der amerikanische (Alp-)Traum: Der verlorene Sohn (1934) und Der Kaiser von Kalifornien (1936).”
Christian Quendler is Professor of American Studies, Film and Media at the University of Innsbruck, where he chairs the Department of American Studies. He is the author of three monographs, including The Camera-Eye Metaphor in Cinema (2017). He is principal investigator of the research project “Delocating Mountains: Cinematic Landscapes and the Alpine Model,” sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund.
Caroline Schaumann is Professor of German Studies at Emory University and affiliated faculty in Film and Media, Environmental Sciences, and the Sustainability Minor. She has co-edited three anthologies and written two books, among them Peak Pursuits: The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century (2020), which sheds light on culturally constructed notions of wilderness, masculinity and national identity.
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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