Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (Traditions in World Cinema) - Softcover

Scott Mackenzie; Anna Westerstahl Stenport

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474409016 ISBN 13: 9781474409018

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

Synopsis

The first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice 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 and radically alters stereotypical views of the Arctic region.

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Review:

Gathering leading scholars across the three continents meeting in the Arctic, MacKenzie and Stenport open up the utopian, dystopian and heterotopian dimensions of Arctic film, a shimmering, crystalline view not only on the contest over the meanings of polar space, but onto the possibilities for reconceptualising world cinema. --Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London

About the Author:

The Editors: Scott MacKenzie teaches in the Department of Film and Media, and is cross-appointed to the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies, at Queen's University, Canada. Anna Westerstahl Stenport is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Media and Cinema Studies, and Director of the European Union Center, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1474409016
• ISBN 13: 9781474409018
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Scott Mackenzie, Anna Westerstahl Stenport