Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474409016
• ISBN13: 9781474409018
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"