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University of California Press, Oakland, California
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...
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Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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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
Twenty-first-century Arctic cinemas and global media studies, media sovereignty, the Anthropocene, and interventionist historiography -- New Arctic explorers and twenty-first-century ice imaginaries : from metrical documentary to IMAX spectacle -- Isuma, indigenous media sovereignty, cinemas of the climate crisis, forced relocation, and truth and reconciliation movements -- The Arnait Collective, feminist practice, and Inuit self-determination in a global context -- Sámi media sovereignty and interventionist historiography : environmental, experimental, and archival politics -- Sámi feminist first-person documentary and trans-indigenous solidarity works -- Global Greenland : the rise of a post-colonial cinema -- Greenlandic reconciliation cinema, self-determination, and interventionist historiography -- Russia's contemporary Arctic cinema as geopolitics -- Cold War and climate crisis environmental anxieties about the Russian north and Svalbard -- Looking ahead : global Arctic cinemas in the twenty-first century.
