Description
| Product ID: | 9780520390553 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | New Arctic Cinemas |
| Subtitle: | Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis |
| Authors: | Author: Anna Westerstahl Stenport, Scott MacKenzie |
| Page Count: | 368 |
| Subjects: | Films, cinema, Film, TV & radio, Film history, theory or criticism, Film: styles and genres, Documentary films, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Film theory & criticism, Film: styles & genres, Documentary films, Environmental science, engineering & technology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-14 |
