Ecology and contemporary Nordic cinemas : from nation-building to ecocosmopolitanism / Pietari Kääpä.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kääpä, Pietari, 1977-

Series:

Topics and issues in national cinema ; v. 2.

Topics and issues in national cinema ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental protection and motion pictures.

Ecology in motion pictures.

Environmentalism in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Scandinavia--History.

Motion pictures.

Documentary films.

Scandinavia.

History.

Documentary films--Scandinavia--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

260 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Contents:

Introduction: environmental history and Nordic film culture

Nation-building in the Nordic context: natural history?

The role of nature in the deer western and the road movie

The horror film in an ecological context

Ecocritical approaches to children's film

Human ecology and the Nordic welfare state

Green economics and the brownfields of the welfare state: crime thrillers and human ecology

Intercultural approaches to Nordic cinema

Ecocritical approaches to multicultural and minority cinemas

Responsibility and the Nordic model: global Nordicness and ecocosmopolitan exceptionalism

Ecodocumentaries and the sense of global responsibility

Representing the end times: ecological melancholia and the end of the world openings and conclusions: transvergent perspectives on Nordic ecocinema.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441192790

1441192794

OCLC:

870248353