“Scintillating, written with grace and elegance, Nomadic Cinema tells us how the seventh art takes us, as Baudelaire had put it, anywhere out of this world. Reaching into medieval and early modern cartography, focusing on a welter of early travel films and those we now affiliate with virtual reality, Alison Griffiths reflects on how the structure and process of travel and expedition films inform us of the fragility and depredation of the world in which we find ourselves. A masterpiece in analysis, erudition, and social commitment, Nomadic Cinema is the first, the finest, and most telling work of its kind, a compass and an enduring point of reference for us all.”

– Tom Conley, Harvard University