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The essays in this wide-ranging collection take readers from the peak of mountain cinema in the 1920s and 30s to the alternative political, affective, and aesthetic possibilities that emerge in their long shadow. Recruited into film genres of nationalist and imperial domination in which the visibility and majesty of mountains work to naturalize a political order, mountains are also the secreted spaces for resistance, endurance, and queer intimacy. What we learn from the diverse essays in this collection is how mountains shape our understanding of cinema and how cinema frames mountains to the measure of fantasies that span the 20th and 21st century globe.-- ""Jennifer Fay, author of Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene"" Challenging the dominance of the 'Alpine model' in the German Bergfilm, this volume with profound essays by seventeen film experts broadens the lens of mountain cinema from traditional Eurocentrism to transcultural contexts, transnational networks, and genre-crossing innovations. The exploration of intermedia, gender and queer relations, environmental issues, and digital technologies in global mountain cinema offers fresh views and surprising insights into an often-contested genre. -- ""Gabriele Dürbeck, University of Vechta""

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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).""

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