Delocating Mountains: Cinematic Landsca...

Delocating Mountains contributes to a new cultural and media history of cinematic mountains. While historical studies of the mountain film have focused on the legacy of the German Bergfilm of the 1920s and 30s as a pioneering moment and generic model of mountain films, this research project argues for a more comprehensive understanding of mountain cinema that includes earlier, forgotten, and neglected discourses on interactions between cinema and mountains. Cinematic mountains have been instrumental in conceptualizing the social, cultural, and technological mobility of the cinematic gaze. They have been crucial in remediating art-historical notions of landscape and in developing various strands of pictorial, figural, generic, affective, and ecocritical theories of film and media.