Global Mountain Cinema

The first academic book to approach mountain film culture from transgeneric, transnational, ecocritical 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

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.