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New Arctic Cinemas

Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis

By: Anna Westerstahl Stenport

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New Arctic Cinemas

Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis

By: Anna Westerstahl Stenport

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.

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Univ of California Press

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0520390563

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Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

By: Anna Westerstahl Stenport

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Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

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A collection of essays analyzing the representation of the Arctic region in documentary films. Beginning with Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922), the majority of films that have been made in, about, and by filmmakers from the Arctic region have been documentary cinema. Focused on a hostile environment that few people visit, these documentaries have heavily shaped ideas about the contemporary global Far North. In Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos, contributors from a variety of scholarly and artistic backgrounds come together to provide a comprehensive study of Arctic documentary cinemas from a transnational perspective. This book offers a thorough analysis of the concept of the Arctic as it is represented in documentary filmmaking, while challenging the notion of “The Arctic” as a homogenous entity that obscures the environmental, historical, geographic, political, and cultural differences that characterize the region. By examining how the Arctic is imagined, understood, and appropriated in documentary work, the contributors argue that such films are key in contextualizing environmental, indigenous, political, cultural, sociological, and ethnographic understandings of the Arctic, from early cinema to the present. Understanding the role of these films becomes all the more urgent in the present day, as conversations around resource extraction, climate change, and sovereignty take center stage in the Arctic’s representation. “Highly recommended.” —Choice “A thorough exploration of the inexorable links between the circumpolar regions and historic and contemporary documentary filmmaking. It will b valuable to Arctic humanities specialists, particularly as a welcome addition to scholarship on visual depictions of the Arctic by authors such as Ann Fienup-Riordan, Richard Condon, Russell Potter, and Peter Geller, as well as Mackenzie and Westerstahl Steport’s earlier co-edited volume, Films on Ice. It will also be of use to anyone interested in ways of studying linkages between filmmaking, environments, and local and outsider communities.” —Sarah Pickman, Yale University, H-Environment, January 2020

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Indiana University Press

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0253040329

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9780253040329

Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love

By: Anna Westerstahl Stenport

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Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love

By: Anna Westerstahl Stenport

Lukas Moodysson is one of the most accomplished and unconventional filmmakers of his generation in Sweden. Moodysson, now well known for his English-language film Mammoth (2009) as well as his heartbreaking indictment of sex-trafficking in Sweden, Lilya 4-Ever (2002), debuted as a writer and director while still in his twenties with Show Me Love (1998). The film received four Guldbaggar--the Swedish equivalent of the Academy Awards--including best film, best director, best screenplay, and best actresses. A coming-of-age and coming out film about two young women in a stiflingly oppressive small town, Show Me Love is widely considered a youth film classic and was called a "masterpiece" by Ingmar Bergman. This book, which is the first study of Moodysson in any language, includes discussions of the film's genre, aesthetics, and style, and situates the film in both contemporary Swedish cinema and broader Swedish culture. It includes sequence and dialogue analysis and discusses how and why this particular film became so important: its queer significance, its unusually realistic depiction of youth, and its critical reception. Anna Stenport conducted extensive interviews with the cast and crew, including several enlightening discussions with Moodysson himself. Lukas Moodysson's Show Me Love offers an incisive introduction to Moodysson for readers interested in contemporary film, as well as a history and close analysis of changes in the Swedish film industry.

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University of Washington Press

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0295804211

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New Arctic Cinemas

Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis

By: Anna Westerstahl Stenport

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Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis

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Locating August Strindberg's Prose

Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting

By: Anna Westerstahl Stenport

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Locating August Strindberg's Prose

Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting

By: Anna Westerstahl Stenport

The setting of a novel is more than just an anonymous, interchangeable backdrop. In Locating August Strindberg's Prose, Anna Westerståhl Stenport argues that spatial setting is a key - though often neglected - tool for exploring the fundamentals of European literary modernism. Stenport examines the importance of location by exploring the prose of Swedish exile August Strindberg (1849-1912), challenging previous studies of the author that have focused on identity and subject formation. Strindberg wrote in both Swedish and French, situating his stories in various places across Europe - from Berlin to the French countryside, the Austrian Alps, and Stockholm - to purposely destabilize concepts of national belonging, language, and literary history. Close readings of Strindberg's prose find that his boundary-challenging narratives redefine and rewrite the meaning of a marginal literary identity. By contextualizing Strindberg against other early modernists, including Kafka, Conrad, Rilke, and Breton, Stenport emphasizes the burgeoning transnationality of literature at the turn of the last century.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442660406

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Locating August Strindberg's Prose

Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting

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Modernism, Transnationalism, and Setting

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Beyond Eastern Noir

Reimagining Russia and Eastern Europe in Nordic Cinemas

By: Anna Estera Mrozewicz

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Beyond Eastern Noir

Reimagining Russia and Eastern Europe in Nordic Cinemas

By: Anna Estera Mrozewicz

Addressing representations of Russia and neighbouring Eastern Europe in post-1989 Nordic cinemas, this ground-breaking book investigates their hitherto overlooked transnational dimension.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474418112

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Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love

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Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

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New Arctic Cinemas

New Arctic Cinemas

Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love

Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love

New Arctic Cinemas

New Arctic Cinemas

Locating August Strindberg's Prose

Locating August Strindberg's Prose

Locating August Strindberg's Prose

Locating August Strindberg's Prose

Beyond Eastern Noir

Beyond Eastern Noir

Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love

Lukas Moodysson’s Show Me Love

Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

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