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Zusatztext Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas shows how film has helped create Nordic love for nature, but also how film works to conceal a Nordic history of the exploitation of nature. The study explores ecocritical approaches to genre, ideologies of the welfare state, globalization, transnationalism, and green activism in the cinema. All this is developed in a theory of transvergent ecocriticism, which helps the reader see newly emergent forms of environmental consciousness. Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas will be required reading for anyone interested in Nordic cinema or ecocriticism and film. Informationen zum Autor Pietari Kääpä is Associate Professor in Media and Communications at University of Warwick, UK. His work combines ecocritical analysis with media industry and policy studies. His books include Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinema (2014) and the anthology Transnational Ecocinema: Film Culture in an Age of Environmental Depravation (2013), co-edited with Tommy Gustafsson. He is an editor of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema . Vorwort Challenges the traditional socio-political rhetoric of national cinema by providing an ecocritical examination of Nordic cinema. Zusammenfassung Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas uses a range of analytical approaches to interrogate how the traditional socio-political rhetoric of national cinema can be rethought through ecosystemic concerns, by exploring a range of Nordic films as national and transnational, regional and local texts--all with significant global implications. By synergizing transnational theories with ecological approaches, the study considers the planetary implications of nation-based cultural production. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Environmental History and Nordic Film CultureChapter 1. Nation-Building in the Nordic Context: Natural History?Chapter 2. The Role of Nature in the Deer Western and the Road MovieChapter 3. The Horror Film in an Ecological ContextChapter 4. Ecocritical Approaches to Children’s FilmChapter 5. Human Ecology and the Nordic Welfare StateChapter 6. Green Economics and the Brownfields of the Welfare State: Crime Thrillers and Human EcologyChapter 7. Intercultural Approaches to Nordic CinemaChapter 8. Ecocritical Approaches to Multicultural and Minority CinemasChapter 9. Responsibility and the Nordic Model: Global Nordicness and Ecocosmopolitan ExceptionalismChapter 10. Ecodocumentaries and the Sense of Global ResponsibilityChapter 11. Representing the End Times: Ecological Melancholia and the End of the WorldOpenings and Conclusions: Transvergent Perspectives on Nordic EcocinemaBibliography Index...
