“All America at My Feet”: Argentine Media and the Local Heroics of Mountaineering on Aconcagua
Abstract:
This paper analyzes a June 2009 Argentine documentary on Aconcagua, the highest peak of the Americas, by considering how traditional characterizations of mountain climbing are reconfigured, both textually and visually, by the discourses of tourism and regional and national identity politics.
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