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Aesthetics of Mountain-Climbing

Session 3 - Saturday 1:15-2:45pm
Eiben Hall 207
Presiding Officer: 
Sean Ireton
  1. Spectacular Scenery and Slippery Descents: Mountaineering in Tropical Polynesia. Sabine Wilke, University of Washington

    Through a close analysis of select passages in Georg Forster's travelogue from Cook's first and second visit to Tahiti in 1773 and 1774, I will discuss specific parameters of the discourse on mountaineering in the Pacific.

  2. Weimar Mountain Film: Luis Trenker as Red Baron. Wilfried Wilms, University of Denver

    "Luis Trenker as Red Baron" investigates the aesthetics of a new masculinity disseminated via the Weimar Mountain Film in the 1920s. The genre of the "Bergfilm" is discussed as a response to the affect of defeat that characterized Weimar Germany.

  3. “All America at My Feet”: Argentine Media and the Local Heroics of Mountaineering on Aconcagua. Joy Logan, University of Hawai'i, Manoa

    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.

Session Type: 
Special Session
Session Status: 
Closed