Explorers on Screen
Adventure! Danger! Romance!
Cynthia J Miller editor Professor Sue Matheson editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Publishing:30th Jun '26
£100.00
This title is due to be published on 30th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Explorers on Screen: Adventure! Danger! Romance! brings together essays that break new ground on films featuring explorers and adventurers from the Age of Exploration to the present. It focuses on fictional and dramatized representations, rather than biopics, as these create the most interesting reflections of the attitudes, ideals, aspirations and tensions at work in their eras of production and reception. It provides readers with the conceptual tools to more deeply consider the portrayals of these characters, both fictional and real, and the ways in which they shape and reflect key historical figures and moments. The volume’s essays offer interdisciplinary approaches from film studies, history, anthropology, philosophy and literature to bring fresh and complex perspectives to each chapter and the volume as a whole.
This well-curated collection, covering the gamut of screen history from the silent era to the present, gets to the heart of what an explorer is. As they journey to new physical, psychological and cultural territories, these explorers find acceptance or ostracism, representative of their perceived roles as saviours, helpmates or cultural imperialists. Until now, their cinematic portrayals have received scant scholarly attention, but this volume gives them their due, reminding viewers not only of their exciting, gripping experiences but also of the complicated, often controversial, issues that they represent. * Kathy Merlock Jackson, Virginia Wesleyan University *
ISBN: 9781399532051
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344 pages