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Transnational Perspectives on Mountain Movies
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This paper examines motion pictures set in mountains, analyzing them from a transnational perspective. I pay particular attention to representations of the French Alps in Force Majeure (2014); imagined mountains in Snowpiercer (2013); and Appalachia Goodbye Solo (2008), comparing and contrasting their connections with mountain landscapes, cultures, and individual characters in a nation-state context. Drawing on critical understandings of the uses of the mountain in film, especially as expressed in German propaganda in World War II, I argue that mountains play an important role in national identity, from Europe to Appalachia to a post-apocalyptic understanding of imagined mountain landscapes.
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Transnational Perspectives on Mountain Movies
This paper examines motion pictures set in mountains, analyzing them from a transnational perspective. I pay particular attention to representations of the French Alps in Force Majeure (2014); imagined mountains in Snowpiercer (2013); and Appalachia Goodbye Solo (2008), comparing and contrasting their connections with mountain landscapes, cultures, and individual characters in a nation-state context. Drawing on critical understandings of the uses of the mountain in film, especially as expressed in German propaganda in World War II, I argue that mountains play an important role in national identity, from Europe to Appalachia to a post-apocalyptic understanding of imagined mountain landscapes.
