Arctic cinemas : essays on polar spaces and the popular imagination / edited by Kylo-Patrick R. Hart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hart, Kylo-Patrick R., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arctic regions--In motion pictures.

Arctic regions.

Motion pictures--Arctic regions--History.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Other Title:

Essays on polar spaces and the popular imagination

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"Arctic cinemas represent a noteworthy new subfield of film studies, and in the current era of unprecedented global warming, interest in the Arctic region and its cinematic portrayals has never been greater. Individually and collectively, films pertaining to Arctic inhabitants and experiences have substantially influenced viewer perceptions of the region throughout the world, often serving as blank slates for the fantasies and projections of individuals elsewhere with regard to its challenging landscape and perceived "otherworldliness." Written by a blend of academic scholars, artists, and filmmakers, this collection of essays provides a transnational overview of the variety of works-ranging from art films and documentaries to horror and road movies-that fall under the conceptual rubric of "Arctic cinemas," and examines their contributions to past and present perceptions of the Arctic. Theoretical and analytical approaches represented here include critical theory, cultural studies, ecocriticism, ethnography, gender studies, genre theory, historiography, and indigenous studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Conceptualizing and analyzing Arctic cinemas / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

Opening insights : presenting, producing and living Arctic cinemas / Eva la Cour

A gramophone's adventures in the Soviet far north : northern indigenous peoples' modernization, foreign models and the Soviet civilizing mission / Caroline Damiens

"Katerina of the north" : the representation of childhood in ethnographic film / Ivan Golovnev and Elena Golovneva

Where life begins : documenting the Arctic as home / Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann

Liselotte Wajstedt's Kiruna: space road : experimental ecocinema as materialist feminist elegy in "extractivist" Sápmi / Cheryl J. Fish

From Palo to Sumé : the development of the modern Greenlandic film industry and nation-building / Ruth Montgomery-Andersen

Arctic gothic : changing times, female entrapment and Finnish horror in Noidan Kirot and The white reindeer / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Canela Ailen

Rodríguez Fontao and Emiliano Aguilar multilingual speech representation, translation and hybridity in the Sámi feature-film comedy Minister of state / Monica Mecsei

Cinema in Arctic Canada : from Igloolik to the Côte d'Azur / Doris Baltruschat

Lapland odyssey from the local to the global : "Perkele," contemporary northern masculinity and the Arctic cultural imaginary / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

Alienation, freedom/belonging and the representation of (queer) Icelandic spaces and places in Heartstone / Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

Closing considerations: Some notes on permafrost (Barentsburg), an artist's video / Fernando José Pereira.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4766-4287-7

9781476642871

OCLC:

1256262723