List of Figures Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Christian Quendler, Caroline Schaumann and Kamaal Haque Part I. Genre 1. Cinematic Mountains: The World and Vision from a Height Tom Gunning 2. Ski Comedy: On the Light Side of Mountain Film Eva-Maria Müller 3. High and Low: Porosity in the Neapolitan Anthology Film I vesuviani ( The Vesuvians, 1997) and Mario Martone's Episode 'The Ascent' Daniel Winkler 4. Inversions of Mountain Cinema: Post-Humanist Ethics and Aesthetics in Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) Christian Quendler Part II. Nation 5. Creative Geography and Volcanic Mountains: Arnold Fanck's Die Tochter des Samurai (1937) as Mountain Film Qinna Shen 6.

Scaling the Mountain, Elevating the Nation: The 'Golden Age of Himalayan Climbing' on Film Harald Höbusch 7. Unshaming Brokeback Mountain : Rocking Heimat in Transnational Coming-Out Mountain Movies Ralph J. Poole 8. Transcultural Negotiations of Mountain Aesthetics in Tiger Zinda Hai Sophia Mehrbrey Part III. Environment 9. Leni Riefenstahl's Mountain Films: Ecologizing the Genre Kamaal Haque 10. A Glacial Pace? Mountain Cinema and the Imagination of Climate Change Alexa Weik von Mossner 11. From Locus Amoenus to Locus Absurdum : Skiing at the End of Nature in Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure (2014) Caroline Schaumann 12.

Festival Obscura: Gender in Festival-Driven Mountaineering Documentaries Julie Rak Part IV. Media 13. The Evening Rains in Bashan : Mountains in Chinese Cinema in 1980 Mia Yinxing Liu 14. Film, Memory, and Intermediality: Exploring the Andes in La cordillera de los sueños (2019) Michael Fuchs and Anna Marini 15. Liberating the Captured Image: Bergfilm Legacies and Digital Technologies in Free Solo (2018) and The Alpinist (2021) Seth Peabody 16. Geological Platforms, Embodied Infrastructures: On the Mountains in Death Stranding (2019) Daniel Reynolds Index.