Arctic cinemas and the documentary ethos /

Arctic cinemas and the documentary ethos / edited by Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Westerståhl Stenport.

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Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos is a comprehensive study of the creation of documentary cinema in and about the global Arctic region from Nanook of the North to the present day.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Kaganovsky, Lilya (Editor), MacKenzie, Scott, 1967- (Editor), Stenport, Anna Westerståhl (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Documentary films > History and criticism.
Documentary films.
Motion pictures.
Arctic regions > In motion pictures.
Arctic Regions.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the documentary ethos and the arctic / Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie, and Anna Westerståhl Stenport
  • The history lesson in Amundsen's 1910-12 film footage / Jane M. Gaines
  • "The threshold of the visible world": Dziga Vertov's A sixth part of the world (1926) / Lilya Kaganovsky
  • Women Arctic explorers: in front of and behind the camera / Mariah Larsson and Anna Westerståhl Stenport
  • Arctic expressionism and the poetic documentary: the northern films of Arne Sucksdorff / Scott MacKenzie
  • Aid, appropriation, and amnesia: documentary film and the Arctic convoys of World War II / Jeremy Hicks
  • Engineering geographies: the Arctic in the Cold War air defense films of the US Air Force / Kevin Hamilton and Ned O'Gorman
  • Documenting Greenland: popular geopolitics on film / Klaus Dodds and Rikke Bjerg Jensen
  • Storm chasers and adrenaline tourists: reimagining the Arctic in the new Norwegian polar expedition film / Gunnar Iversen
  • The two lives of Expo 67's polar life (La vie polaire) / Monika Kin Gagnon
  • Documenting the Arctic sublime / Michael Renov
  • "It looks like the surface of the moon": the Arctic landscape in the Western imaginary / Noelle Belanger
  • Moving through the century: the far north in Soviet and contemporary Russian nonfiction / Oksana Sarkisova
  • Isuma TV, visual sovereignty, and the Arctic media world / Faye Ginsburg
  • Making films for her community: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril / Judy Wolfe
  • Martha of the North and Nunavik narratives of survivance / Karine Bertrand
  • Hybrid first-person Sami documentaries: identity construction and contact zones in the twenty-first century / Monica Mecsei
  • From dreamland to homeland: a journey toward futures different than pasts / Britt Kramvig and Rachel Gomez Andersen
  • Reconciling the past: Greenlandic documentary in the twenty-first century / Ivalo Frank
  • The Arctic doesn't matter / Toby Miller.

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