Introduction: Explorers on Screen--Why Thrilling Matters Sue Matheson Part I. Types and Stereotypes 1. The North American Explorer: Types and Comic Stereotypes Adrian Manning 2. Mapping Mother India in Vidya's Kahaani (2012) Adith Suresh and Sony Jalarajan Raj 3. A Necessary Adventure: Child Explorers and the Senses of Belonging Matthew Cipa 4. Nerdy is the New Sexy: Adventuring Librarians in The Mummy (1999) and The Librarian (2006) Alley Marie Jordan 5. The Inward Explorer and the Outward Jester: Benjamin Christensen's Film Adaptation of Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) Andrew Grossman Part II. Othering People and Places 6.
Footprints in the Sand: The Well-Worn Path of Middle East Exploration in Film Mat Hardy and Sally Totman 7. Audrey Hepburn's Adventures in Peliculas de la Selva : Hollywood and Othering in The Nun's Story (1959) and Green Mansions (1959) Etienne Boumans 8. Envisioning the Other: Spatial Imagination in Ang Li's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Katheryn M. Linduff 9. Mountains and Mysticism: Escapism and Authenticity in the Cinematic Exploration of the Himalaya Tim Chamberlain 10. Adventures in Xenophobia: The Light at the Edge of the World (1971) as a Cultural Artifact David Melbye Part III. The Lore in Explore 11. "Bring Me His Cojones": The Mythical West of Fred Schepisi's Barbarosa (1982) Tom Prasch 12.
Akira Kurosawa's Dersu Uzala (1975) -- the Western M eets Shinto kannagara Sue Matheson 13. "Alright, Kid. Ready for an Adventure?": Generic/Mythic Redefinition in Jon Favreau's The Mandalorian (2019-) and The Book of Boba Fett (2021-2022) Joanne Vrignaud 14. The Queen and the Cartographer: Constructing Heroes in Disney's Atlantis Films Aidan Norrie 15. Antipodean Exploration : T he Films of Werner Herzog Roger Hillman Part IV. History Remade 16. Myth/History: Richard Burton in Mountains of the Moon (1990) Jon Cowans 17. Adapting Daniel Boone, Adapting America Hope Hodgkins 18.
The Darker Side of Indiana Jones: Dunhuang, Indy's Prototypes, and the Temple of Doom (1984) Shuchen Wang 19. "The Impossible Comes to Screen": Real and Reel Exploration in S.O.S. Iceberg (1933) Iris Haukamp 20. Burke & Wills (1985) and Wills & Burke (1985): Lost in the Desert and Deserted by the Audience Dean Brandum.