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FILMS ON ICE
Mackenzie Scott West
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Description for FILMS ON ICE
Hardcover. Offers a comprehensive study of films made in and about one of the world's most breathtaking landscapes - the Arctic. This book addresses vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic presents the region as one of great and previously overlooked cinematic diversity. Editor(s): Mackenzie, Scott; Stenport, Anna Westerstahl. Num Pages: 384 pages, 52 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 716.
This is a comprehensive study of films made in and about one of the world's most breathtaking landscapes - the Arctic. The first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic presents the region as one of great and previously overlooked cinematic diversity. With chapters on polar explorer films, silent cinema, documentaries, ethnographic and indigenous film, gender and ecology, as well as Hollywood and the USSR's uses and abuses of the Arctic, this book provides a groundbreaking account of Arctic cinemas from 1898 to the present. Challenging ... Read more
This is a comprehensive study of films made in and about one of the world's most breathtaking landscapes - the Arctic. The first book to address the vast diversity of Northern circumpolar cinemas from a transnational perspective, Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic presents the region as one of great and previously overlooked cinematic diversity. With chapters on polar explorer films, silent cinema, documentaries, ethnographic and indigenous film, gender and ecology, as well as Hollywood and the USSR's uses and abuses of the Arctic, this book provides a groundbreaking account of Arctic cinemas from 1898 to the present. Challenging ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748694174
SKU
V9780748694174
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About Mackenzie Scott West
Scott MacKenzie teaches in the Department of Film and Media at Queen's University, Canada. Anna Westerstahl Stenport is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Studies and Media and Cinema Studies, and Director of the European Union Center, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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