Publications
Editions
[UNDER CONTRACT]
Global Mountain Cinema, edited by Kamaal Haque, Christian Quendler, and Caroline Schaumann (under contract with Edinburgh University Press).
[FORTHCOMING]
Special issue "Beyond the Classical Bergfilm." In Colloquia Germanica 56.3 (forthcoming 2023), edited by Kamaal Haque and Christian Quendler.
Special issue on “Cinematic Mountains.” In New Review of Film and Television Studies 21.1 (forthcoming January 2023), edited by Cornelia Klecker and Christian Quendler. [Preview]
Special issue on “Mediating Mountains.” In JAAAS 2.2 (Spring 2021), edited by Eva-Maria Müller and Christian Quendler. [Access issue here]
Special issue on "Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in 'Our' Appalachia." In Appalachian Journal 48.3–4 (2021), edited by Christian Quendler and Benjamin Robbins. [Download Cover and TOC]
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Capelle, Birgit, "Mountains and Waters of No-Mind: A Transcultural Approach to Moments of Heightened Awareness and Non-Substantialist Ontology in Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, and Gary Snyder." Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2.2 (Spring 2021): 117–140.
Claxton, Mae Miller, "Bearing Witness: Mountains as Sacred/Exploited Spaces in Appalachian Narratives." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 48.3–4 (Spring/Summer 2021): 170–185.
Claxton, Mae Miller et al., "Round Table Discussion: New Forms and Strategies of Cultural Self-Expression Emerging from Struggles over Representations of Appalachia." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 48.3–4 (Spring/Summer 2021): 266–277.
Cubitt, Sean, "Imagining Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy): Two Landscapes of the Anthropocene, 1970 and 2014." New Review of Film & Television Studies 21.1 (Spring 2023).
Fackler, Katharina, "Looking at Appalachia: Online Intermediality, Collaboration, and Mountain Multiplicity." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 48.3–4 (Spring/Summer 2021): 188–211.
Fuchs, Michael. “Vanishing Glaciers, the Becoming-Unextinct of Microorganisms, and Fathering a More-Than-Human World: Climate Change Horror in the Alps.” Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research 6.2 (2019): 11–24. [Access article]
Kindinger, Evangelia, "'The Best Way to Fight Them is Refuse to Leave': Mountain Removal and White Vulnerability in Ann Pancake's Strange as this Weather Has Been." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 48.3–4 (Spring/Summer 2021): 246–265.
Klecker, Cornelia and Christian Quendler, "Introduction: Cinematic Figuration of Mountains.” New Review of Film & Television Studies 21.1 (Spring 2023).
Ladinig, Anna, "Ambiguous Images of Soviet-Kyrgyz Mountainscapes in The Sky of Our Childhood (1966)." New Review of Film & Television Studies 21.1 (Spring 2023).
Lehmann, Benita, "Jennifer Peedom’s Mountain as a City Symphony." Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2.2 (Spring 2021): 189–210.
Martinez Diane, "Agency and Environmentalism in Appalachia." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 48.3–4 (Spring/Summer 2021): 228–244.
Müller, Eva-Maria, "Bergkino: Wenn die Leinwand Berge Versetzt." Blickpunkt:Film. April 2023: 35.
Müller, Eva-Maria, "Cinematic Cultures of Descent: The Other Sides of the Mountaineering Story." New Review of Film & Television Studies 21.1 (Spring 2023).
Müller, Eva-Maria, "Geschichten vom Gipfellosen und deren Fragen an die alpine Zukunft." Syntopia Alpina. Fall 2022. [Access article here]
Müller, Eva-Maria and Christian Quendler, "Mediating Mountains: Introduction to the Special Issue." Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2.2 (Spring 2021): 105–114.
Nunes, Mark, "Becoming-Data—Becoming-Mountain: Affordances, Assemblages, and the Transversal Interface." Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2.2 (Spring 2021): 247–262.
Peterson, Jennifer Lynn, "Highroads and Skyroads: Mountain Roadbuilding in U.S. Government Films of the 1920s and '30s." New Review of Film & Television Studies 21.1 (Spring 2023).
Pöhlmann, Sascha, "Thereness: Video Game Mountains as Limits of Interactivity." Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2.2 (Spring 2021): 213–245.
Quendler, Christian, “Holy Mountain Hollywood: Hölderlin, Fanck und Herzog.” Heilige Berge – Berge und das Heilige, edited by Monika Fink and Thomas Steppan. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2020. 161–173.
Quendler, Christian, “Keaton’s Chimera, or the Comic Assemblage of Mountains.” Ecocinema: Theory and Practice 2, eds. Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Sean Cubitt. New York: Routledge, 2023. 135–148.
Quendler, Christian and Benjamin Robbins, "Transnational Perspectives: Attachment and Appropriation in 'Our' Appalachia." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 48.3–4 (Spring/Summer 2021): 156–167.
Quendler, Christian and Daniel Winkler, “Aging, Auteurism and the Bergfilm: Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) and Paolo Sorrentino’s La givonanezza (2015).” Journal of Film and Video 72.3–4 (Fall/Winter 2020): 73–89.
Sielke, Sabine, "Revisiting Brokeback Mountain — How Mountains Matter, or: Melodrama, Melancholy, (Im-)Mobility." New Review of Film & Television Studies 21.1 (Spring 2023).
Spill, Frédérique, "Quilting the Mountains into a Poem: Ron Rash's Appalachia." Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 48.3–4 (Spring/Summer 2021): 212–227.
Tschachler, Heinz, "More Than a Feeling: Why the Lewis and Clark Expedition Did not Experience 'the Sublime' at the Great Divide when Crossing the American Continent." Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2.2 (Spring 2021): 143–160.
Wedekind, Michael, "Mountain Grand Hotels at the Fin de Siècle: Sites, Gazes, and Environments." Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2.2 (Spring 2021): 163–187.
Reviews
Hansen, Peter, Review of False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction, by Julie Rak, Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2.2 (Spring 2021): 272–275.
Haque, Kamaal, Review of Action: Let’s Climb! History of Mountaineering and Climbing Film, by Roberto Mantovani, New Review of Film & Television Studies, further reading for Speacial Issue 21.1 (Spring 2023).
Müller, Eva-Maria, Review of Peak Pursuits: The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century, by Caroline Schaumann, Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2.2 (Spring 2021): 269–272.
Raad, Danielle, Review of Uplift: Visual Culture at the Banff School of Fine Arts, by PearlAnn Reichwein and Karen Wall, Journal of the Austrian Association of American Studies 2.2 (Spring 2021): 265–269.
Vith, Johannes, Review of After Coal: Stories of Survival in Appalachia and Wales, by Tom Hansell, Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review 48.3–4 (Spring/Summer 2021): 294–296.