Arctic cinemas and the documentary ethos / edited by Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Westerståhl Stenportport.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

William E. Lingelbach Fund.

Kaganovsky, Lilya, editor.

MacKenzie, Scott, 1967- editor.

Stenport, Anna Westerståhl, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arctic regions--In motion pictures.

Arctic regions.

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Arctic Regions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 372 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction: the documentary ethos and the arctic / Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Westerståhl Stenport

The history lesson in Amundsen's 1910-12 film footage / Jane M. Gaines

"The threshold of the visible world": Dziga Vertov's A sixth part of the world (1926) / Lilya Kaganovsky

Women Arctic explorers: in front of and behind the camera / Mariah Larsson and Anna Westerståhl Stenport

Arctic expressionism and the poetic documentary: the northern films of Arne Sucksdorff / Scott MacKenzie

Aid, appropriation, and amnesia: documentary film and the Arctic convoys of World War II / Jeremy Hicks

Engineering geographies: the Arctic in the Cold War air defense films of the US Air Force / Kevin Hamilton and Ned O'Gorman

Documenting Greenland: popular geopolitics on film / Klaus Dodds and Rikke Bjerg Jensen

Storm chasers and adrenaline tourists: reimagining the Arctic in the new Norwegian polar expedition film / Gunnar Iversen

The two lives of Expo 67's polar life (La vie polaire) / Monika Kin Gagnon

Documenting the Arctic sublime / Michael Renov

"It looks like the surface of the moon": the Arctic landscape in the Western imaginary / Noelle Belanger

Moving through the century: the far north in Soviet and contemporary Russian nonfiction / Oksana Sarkisova

Isuma TV, visual sovereignty, and the Arctic media world / Faye Ginsburg

Making films for her community: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril / Judy Wolfe

Martha of the North and Nunavik narratives of survivance / Karine Bertrand

Hybrid first-person Sami documentaries: identity construction and contact zones in the twenty-first century / Monica Mecsei

From dreamland to homeland: a journey toward futures different than pasts / Britt Kramvig and Rachel Gomez Andersen

Reconciling the past: Greenlandic documentary in the twenty-first century / Ivalo Frank

The Arctic doesn't matter / Toby Miller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2019).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William E. Lingelbach Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Arctic cinemas and the documentary ethos

ISBN:

9780253040312

0253040310

9780253040329

0253040329

Publisher Number:

99979823306

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.