Films on ice : cinemas of the Arctic / edited by Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacKenzie, Scott, 1967- editor.

Stenport, Anna Westerståhl, editor.

Series:

Traditions in world cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Arctic regions--History.

Motion pictures.

History.

Arctic regions--In motion pictures.

Arctic regions.

Arctic Regions.

Physical Description:

xiv, 362 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

Summary:

The first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice presents the region as one of great and previously overlooked cinematic diversity. With chapters on polar explorer films, silent cinema, documentaries, ethnographic and indigenous film, gender and ecology - as well as Hollywood and the USSR's uses and abuses of the Arctic - this volume provides a groundbreaking account of Arctic cinemas from 1898 to the present. An international array of European, Russian, Nordic and North American scholars challenge dominant notions of the region in popular and political culture and demonstrate how moving images (cinema, television, video and digital media) have been central to the very definition of the Arctic since the end of the 19th century. Films on Ice radically alters stereotypical views of the Arctic region, and therefore of film history itself. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Global Indigeneity

1 'Who Were We? And What Happened to Us?': Inuit Memory and Arctic Futures in Igloolik Isuma Film and Video / Marian Bredin Bredin, Marian 33

2 Northern Exposures and Marginal Critiques: The Politics of Sovereignty in Sámi Cinema / Pietari Kääpa Kääpa, Pietari 45

3 Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies / Ann Fienup-Riordan Fienup-Riordan, Ann 59

4 Cultural Stereotypes and Negotiations in Sámi Cinema / Monica Kim Mecsei Mecsei, Monica Kim 72

5 Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner / Marco Bohr Bohr, Marco 84

6 Cosmopolitan Inuit: New Perspectives on Greenlandic Film / Kirsten Thisted Thisted, Kirsten 97

7 Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola / Gunnar Iversen Iversen, Gunnar 105

Part II Hollywood Hegemony

8 Fact and Fiction in 'Northerns' and Early 'Arctic Films' / Russell A. Potter Potter, Russell A. 121

9 California's Yukon as Comic Space / Mark Sandberg Sandberg, Mark 134

10 'See the Crashing Masses of White Death ...': Greenland, Germany and the Sublime in the 'Bergfilm' SOS Eisberg / Lill-Ann Körber Körber, Lill-Ann 148

11 The Threat of the Thaw: The Cold War on the Screen / Anna Westerstähl Stenport Stenport, Anna Westerstähl 161

12 Hollywood Does Iceland: Authenticity, Genericity and the Picturesque / Björn Norðfjörd Norðfjörd, Björn 176

13 White on White: Twenty-First-Century Norwegian Horror Films Negotiate Masculinist Arctic Imaginaries / Sabine Henlin-Strømme Henlin-Strømme, Sabine 187

Part III Ethnography and the Documentary Dilemma

14 The Creative Treatment of Alterity: Nanook as the North / Scott Mackenzie Mackenzie, Scott 201

15 From Objects to Actors: Knud Rasmussen's Ethnographic Feature Film The Wedding of Palo / Ebbe Volquardsen Volquardsen, Ebbe 215

16 Arctic Travelogues: Conquering the Soviet North / Oksana Sarkisova Sarkisova, Oksana 222

17 A Gentle Gaze on the Colony: Jette Bang's Documentary Filming in Greenland 1938-9 / Anne Mette Jørgensen Jørgensen, Anne Mette 235

18 Exercise Musk-Ox: The Challenges of Filming a Military Expedition in Canada's Arctic / Caroline Forcier Holloway Holloway, Caroline Forcier 245

19 The Tour: A Film About Longyearbyen, Svalbard. An Interview with Eva la Cour / Johanna Haaber Ible Ible, Johanna Haaber 255

Part IV Myths and Modes of Exploration

20 The Changing Polar Films: Silent Films from Arctic Exploration 1900-30 / Jan Anders Diesen Diesen, Jan Anders 265

21 The Attractions of the North: Early Film Expeditions to the Exotic Snowscape / Marina Dahlquist Dahlquist, Marina 279

21 Frozen in Motion: Ethnographic Representation in Donald B. MacMilan's Arctic Films / Rebecca Genauer Genauer, Rebecca 286

23 'My Heart Beat for the Wilderness': Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Jenny Gilbertson, Margaret Tait and Other Twentieth-Century Scottish Women Filmmakers / Sarah Neely Neely, Sarah 299

24 'Here will be a Garden-City': Soviet Man on an Arctic Construction Site / Lyubov Bugaeva Bugaeva, Lyubov 310

25 Transcending the Sublime: Arctic Creolisation in the Works of Isaac Julien and John Akomfrah / Helga Hlaðgerður Lúthersdóttir Lúthersdóttir, Helga Hlaðgerður 325

26 DJ Spooky and Dziga Vertov: Experimental Cinema Meets Digital Art in Exploring the Polar Regions / Daria Shembel Shembel, Daria 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748694174

074869417X

OCLC:

902717957