Arctic cinemas : essays on polar spaces and the popular imagination /
"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 h...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2021]
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Table of 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.