| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 372 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2019) |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- History and criticism
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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ART -- Film & Video.
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Documentary films
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Motion pictures
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| SUBJECT |
Arctic regions -- In motion pictures
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| Subject |
Arctic Regions
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaganovsky, Lilya, editor
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MacKenzie, Scott, 1967- editor
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Stenport, Anna Westerståhl, editor
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| LC no. |
2019000870 |
| ISBN |
9780253040312 |
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0253040310 |
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9780253040329 |
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0253040329 |
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