Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos
    Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos
    Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos
    Ebook360 pages9 hours

    Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

    By Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndiana University Press
    Release dateFeb 18, 2019
    ISBN9780253040312
    Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

    Read more from Lilya Kaganovsky

    Related to Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

    Related ebooks

    Performing Arts For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Seeing and Knowing

      Sep 9, 2018

      Seeing and Knowing
      2 min read

    • Article

      Some Of The Most Interesting Windrush Passengers Were Indo-Caribbean – Yet Their Stories Remain Untold

      Jun 23, 2021

      When Lynda Mahabir won her immigration case in court last month, it was a victory for all Windrush campaigners. However, it also drew attention to a less visible group, the Indo-Caribbean members of the Windrush generation. The UK census has no class

      4 min read

    • Article

      For A Cinema Of Bombardment

      Sep 20, 2019

      For A Cinema Of Bombardment
      11 min read

    • Article

      How We Made An Angel At My Table

      Oct 11, 2020

      Jane Campion read To the Is-land in 1982 while a film student in Sydney. Her mother, Edith, sent her a copy. She’d loved Frame’s books since reading Owls Do Cry as a teenager. She cried. She had an idea. Back in New Zealand for Christmas, she asked h

      8 min read

    • Article

      Open Ticket

      Sep 14, 2020

      Open Ticket
      12 min read

    • Article

      Shape Of The Wound

      Mar 8, 2022

      BEFORE THE STORM, my children and I carried the potted plants indoors. We emptied the linen closet onto the floor and hauled the contents to the yard, where we wrapped the citrus trees in sheets and covered the cactus with a thin blanket. My husband

      6 min read

    • Article

      Literary MagNet

      Aug 17, 2022

      Animals narrate every story in Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut collection, What We Fed to the Manticore (Tin House, September 2022). A blue whale searches for his beloved; a starving polar bear hunts a seal among melting Arctic ice. Across the book, an

      3 min read

    • Article

      Out Of The Inkwell

      Mar 25, 2020

      Out Of The Inkwell
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Disappearing Physicist and His Elusive Particle: He ushered symmetry into theoretical physics, then vanished without a trace.

      May 8, 2014

      The members of the physics institute at Via Panisperna were in the habit of giving themselves jocular nicknames: Enrico Fermi was “The Pope,” Orso Corbino was “God the Almighty,” and Franco Rasetti was “The Cardinal Vicar.” It was 1930, and the Itali

      11 min read

    • Article

      Isuma: Isuma

      Sep 10, 2019

      Isuma: Isuma
      4 min read

    • Article

      Karrabing Film Collective

      Sep 1, 2018

      Karrabing Film Collective
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Indigenous Gaze

      Sep 8, 2020

      The Indigenous Gaze
      8 min read

    • Article

      Shades Of White

      Jul 3, 2022

      Shades Of White
      8 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos - Lilya Kaganovsky

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1