New Arctic cinemas : media sovereignty and the climate crisis / Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacKenzie, Scott, 1967- author.

Stenport, Anna Westerståhl, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Arctic regions--21st century.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]

Summary:

"For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization. It is now impossible to ignore the ways the climate crisis, expanding resource extraction, and Indigenous political mobilization in the circumpolar North are constituent parts of the global present. New Arctic Cinemas presents an original, comparative, and interventionist historiography of film and media in twenty-first-century Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, Canada, and the United States to situate Arctic media in the place it rightfully deserves to occupy: as central to global environmental concerns, Indigenous media sovereignty, and self-determination movements. From Zacharias Kunuk and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril to Amanda Kernell and Inuk Silis Høegh, the works of contemporary Arctic filmmakers reach worldwide audiences. In examining the reach and impact of these artists and their work, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport reveal a global media system of intertwined production contexts, circulation opportunities, and imaginaries--all originating in the Arctic North"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Twenty-first-century Arctic cinemas and global media studies, media sovereignty, the Anthropocene, and interventionist historiography

New Arctic explorers and twenty-first-century ice imaginaries : from metrical documentary to IMAX spectacle

Isuma, indigenous media sovereignty, cinemas of the climate crisis, forced relocation, and truth and reconciliation movements

The Arnait Collective, feminist practice, and Inuit self-determination in a global context

Sámi media sovereignty and interventionist historiography : environmental, experimental, and archival politics

Sámi feminist first-person documentary and trans-indigenous solidarity works

Global Greenland : the rise of a post-colonial cinema

Greenlandic reconciliation cinema, self-determination, and interventionist historiography

Russia's contemporary Arctic cinema as geopolitics

Cold War and climate crisis environmental anxieties about the Russian north and Svalbard

Looking ahead : global Arctic cinemas in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: MacKenzie, Scott, 1967- New Arctic cinemas

ISBN:

9780520390560

0520390563

OCLC:

1374540612