Films on Ice : : Cinemas of the Arctic / / Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerstahl Stenport.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: MacKenzie, Scott,; Westerstahl Stenport, Anna,
• MitwirkendeR: Bohr, Marco,; Bredin, Marian,; Bugaeva, Lyubov,; Dahlquist, Marina,; Diesen, Jan Anders,; Fienup-Riordan, Ann,; Genauer, Rebecca,; Henlin-Stromme, Sabine,; Holloway, Caroline Forcier,; Ihle, Johanne Haaber,; Iversen, Gunnar,; Jorgensen, Anne Mette,; Korber, Lill-Ann,; Kääpä, Pietari,; Luthersdottir, Helga Hlaogerour,; MacKenzie, Scott,; Mecsei, Monica Kim,; Neely, Sarah,; Norofjoro, Bjorn,; Potter, Russell A.,; Sandberg, Mark,; Sarkisova, Oksana,; Shembel, Daria,; Stenport, Anna Westerstahl,; Thisted, Kirsten,; Volquardsen, Ebbe,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 52 B/W illustrations

A comprehensive study of films made in a region of the world central to its future: The ArcticThe first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic presents the region as one of great and previously overlook...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA
• Introduction: What are Arctic Cinemas?
• PART I GLOBAL INDIGENEITY
• 1. ‘Who Were We? And What Happened to Us?’: Inuit Memory and Arctic Futures in Igloolik Isuma Film and Video
• 2. Northern Exposures and Marginal Critiques: The Politics of Sovereignty in Sami Cinema
• 3. Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies
• 4. Cultural Stereotypes and Negotiations in Sami Cinema
• 5. Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
• 6. Cosmopolitan Inuit: New Perspectives On Greenlandic Film
• 7. Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender And Transnationality In The Films Of Tommy Wirkola
• PART II HOLLYWOOD HEGEMONY
• 8. Fact And Fiction In ‘Northerns’ And Early ‘Arctic’ Films
• 9. California’s Yukon As Comic Space
• 10. ‘See The Crashing Masses Of White Death . . .’: Greenland, Germany And The Sublime In The ‘Bergfilm’ SOS Eisberg
• 11. The Threat Of The Thaw: The Cold War On The Screen
• 12. Hollywood Does Iceland: Authenticity, Genericity And The Picturesque
• 13. White On White: Twenty-First-Century Norwegian Horror Films Negotiate Masculinist Arctic Imaginaries
• PART III ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE DOCUMENTARY DILEMMA
• 14. The Creative Treatment Of Alterity: Nanook As The North
• 15. From Objects To Actors: Knud Rasmussen’S Ethnographic Feature Film The Wedding of Palo
• 16. Arctic Travelogues: Conquering The Soviet North
• 17. A Gentle Gaze On The Colony: Jette Bang’S Documentary Filming In Greenland 1938-9
• 18. Exercise Musk-Ox: The Challenges of Filming a Military Expedition in Canada’s Arctic
• 19. The Tour: A Film About Longyearbyen, Svalbard. An Interview with Eva la Cour
• PART IV MYTHS AND MODES OF EXPLORATION
• 20. The Changing Polar Films: Silent Films from Arctic Exploration 1900-30
• 21. The Attractions of the North: Early Film Expeditions to the Exotic Snowscape
• 22. Frozen in Motion: Ethnographic Representation in Donald B. MacMillan’s Arctic Films
• 23. ‘My Heart Beat for the Wilderness’: Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Jenny Gilbertson, Margaret Tait and Other Twentieth-Century Scottish Women Filmmakers
• 24. ‘Here will be a Garden-City’: Soviet Man on an Arctic Construction Site
• 25. Transcending the Sublime: Arctic Creolisation in the Works of Isaac Julien and John Akomfrah
• 26. DJ Spooky and Dziga Vertov: Experimental Cinema Meets Digital Art in Exploring the Polar Regions
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index