New Arctic Cinemas - Media Sovereignty and the Climate Crisis

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 Hoegh, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Scott Mackenzie, Scott Stenport Mackenzie, Anna Westerstahl Stenport
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9780520390546
• ISBN: 978-0-520-39054-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Documentary, Documentary films, environmental science, engineering & technology, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film: styles & genres, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Film Theory & Criticism, Film, television, radio genres: Historical, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Historical