For centuries, the Arctic was visualized as an unchanging, stable, and rigidly alien landscape, existing outside twenty-first-century globalization. It is now impossible to ignore the ways the climate crisis, expanding resource extraction, and Indigenous political mobilization in the circumpolar North are constituent parts of the global present. New Arctic Cinemas presents an original, comparative, and interventionist historiography of film and media in twenty-first-century Scandinavia, Greenland, Russia, Canada, and the United States to situate Arctic media in the place it rightfully deserves to occupy: as central to global environmental concerns and Indigenous media sovereignty and self-determination movements. The works of contemporary Arctic filmmakers, from Zacharias Kunuk and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril to Amanda Kernell and Inuk Silis Høegh, reach worldwide audiences. In examining the reach and influence of these artists and their work, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport reveal a global media system of intertwined production contexts, circulation opportunities, and imaginaries—all centering the Arctic North.
By:
Scott MacKenzie,
Anna Westerstahl Stenport
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780520390546
ISBN 10: 0520390547
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 27 June 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments 1 • Twenty-First-Century Arctic Cinemas and Global Media Studies, Media Sovereignty, the Anthropocene, and Interventionist Historiography 2 • New Arctic Explorers and Twenty-First-Century Ice Imaginaries: From Metrical Documentary to IMAX Spectacle 3 • Isuma and Indigenous Media Sovereignty 4 • The Arnait Collective, Feminist Practice, and Inuit Self-Determination 5 • Sámi Media Sovereignty and Interventionist Historiography:Environmental, Experimental, and Archival Politics 6 • Sámi Feminist First-Person Documentary and Women’s Activism 7 • Global Greenland and Postcolonial Cinema 8 • Greenlandic Reconciliation Cinema, Self-Determination, and Interventionist Historiography 9 • Russia’s Contemporary Arctic Cinema as Geopolitics 10 • From the Cold War to the Climate Crisis: The Russian North and Utopian Svalbard 11 • Looking Ahead: Global Arctic Cinemas in the Twenty-First Century References Index
Scott MacKenzie is Professor and Head of the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University. Anna Westerstahl Stenport is Professor of Communication Studies and Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. They are coeditors of Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic and, with Lilya Kaganovsky, Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos.
