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Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic

Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic

MacKenzie, Scott
Westerstahl Stenport, Anna

Hardcover

Series: Traditions in World Cinema

Film StudiesFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 074869417X
ISBN13: 9780748694174
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Dec 2 2014
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

A comprehensive study of films made in and about one of the world's most breathtaking landscapes - the Arctic
The 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 overlooked cinematic diversity. With chapters on polar explorer films, silent cinema, documentaries, ethnographic and indigenous film, gender and ecology, as well as Hollywood and the USSR's uses and abuses of the Arctic, this book provides a groundbreaking account of Arctic cinemas from 1898 to the present. Challenging dominant notions of the region in popular and political culture, it demonstrates how moving images (cinema, television, video, and digital media) have been central to the very definition of the Arctic since the end of the nineteenth century. Bringing together an international array of European, Russian, Nordic, and North American scholars, Films on Ice radically alters stereotypical views of the Arctic region, and therefore of film history itself.

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