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List of contents
0. Introduction: Visualising the Arctic (Markku Lehtimäki, Arja Rosenholm and Vlad Strukov)
Part One: Visual poetics and historic cartographies
1. Maija Ojala-Fulwood: Arctic Regions in Early Modern Maps
2. Markku Lehtimäki: The Arctic That Was: Visual Poetics, Historical Narrative and Ian McGuire’s The North Water
3. Lieven Ameel: Balloon Explorers, the Panorama, and the Making of an Arctic Nomos in Contemporary Fiction
Part Two: Mobile visuality and visual storytelling
4. Tintti Klapuri: The Winners of the Globe? The Russian Imperial Gaze at the North in Late Nineteenth-century Travelogues
5. Leena Romu: Dystopian Comics as Cautionary Tales about the Future of the Arctic
6. Elina Arminen: Come to Lapland! Changes and Continuities of Lapland Imagery in Finnish and International Travel Posters
7. Heidi Hansson and Ann-Catrine Eriksson: Cover Art and Content: Selling Arctic Crime Fiction
Part Three: The politics of Arctic visuality
8. Johannes Riquet: Cinema, Geopolitics, and Arctic Landscapes: The Cold Cold War in Orion’s Belt
9. Klaus Dodds and Elana Wilson Rowe: Red Arctic? Affective Geopolitics and the 2007 Russian Flag-planting Incident in the Central Arctic Ocean
10. Robert A. Saunders: Arctic Bodies: Sights/Sites of Necrocorporeality in Nordic Noir Television Series
Part Four: Visual worlds of the Russian Arctic
11. Arja Rosenholm: The Masculine North in Popular Russian Film: Territoriia as a Case Study
12. Jane Costlow: Women Look North: Domesticities and the Sublime in Three Contemporary Russian Artists
13. Vlad Strukov: The Arctic on Display: Museums, Art and Haptic Visuality of the North
Part Five: Visual documentation and ethnography
14. Ivan Golovnev and Elena Golovneva: Traditional Ethno-Cultural Communities in the Modern Russian North: Oil Field as a Documentary Film Case
15. Dmitry Zamyatin: Geocultural Space of the Arctic: Landscape Visualization and Ontological Models of Imagination
16. Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur: Envisioning Digital Methods for Fieldwork in the Arctic
Summary
A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, this book supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world.
