Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iii
3. List of Illustrations v
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA ix
6. Introduction: What are Arctic Cinemas? 1
7. PART I GLOBAL INDIGENEITY
8. 1. ‘Who Were We? And What Happened to Us?’: Inuit Memory and Arctic Futures in Igloolik Isuma Film and Video 31
9. 2. Northern Exposures and Marginal Critiques: The Politics of Sovereignty in Sami Cinema 45
10. 3. Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies 59
11. 4. Cultural Stereotypes and Negotiations in Sami Cinema 72
12. 5. Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner 84
13. 6. Cosmopolitan Inuit: New Perspectives On Greenlandic Film 97
14. 7. Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender And Transnationality In The Films Of Tommy Wirkola 105
15. PART II HOLLYWOOD HEGEMONY
16. 8. Fact And Fiction In ‘Northerns’ And Early ‘Arctic’ Films 117
17. 9. California’s Yukon As Comic Space 134
18. 10. ‘See The Crashing Masses Of White Death . . .’: Greenland, Germany And The Sublime In The ‘Bergfilm’ SOS Eisberg 148
19. 11. The Threat Of The Thaw: The Cold War On The Screen 161
20. 12. Hollywood Does Iceland: Authenticity, Genericity And The Picturesque 176
21. 13. White On White: Twenty-First-Century Norwegian Horror Films Negotiate Masculinist Arctic Imaginaries 187
22. PART III ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE DOCUMENTARY DILEMMA
23. 14. The Creative Treatment Of Alterity: Nanook As The North 197
24. 15. From Objects To Actors: Knud Rasmussen’S Ethnographic Feature Film The Wedding of Palo 215
25. 16. Arctic Travelogues: Conquering The Soviet North 222
26. 17. A Gentle Gaze On The Colony: Jette Bang’S Documentary Filming In Greenland 1938-9 235
27. 18. Exercise Musk-Ox: The Challenges of Filming a Military Expedition in Canada’s Arctic 245
28. 19. The Tour: A Film About Longyearbyen, Svalbard. An Interview with Eva la Cour 255
29. PART IV MYTHS AND MODES OF EXPLORATION
30. 20. The Changing Polar Films: Silent Films from Arctic Exploration 1900-30 261
31. 21. The Attractions of the North: Early Film Expeditions to the Exotic Snowscape 279
32. 22. Frozen in Motion: Ethnographic Representation in Donald B. MacMillan’s Arctic Films 286
33. 23. ‘My Heart Beat for the Wilderness’: Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Jenny Gilbertson, Margaret Tait and Other Twentieth-Century Scottish Women Filmmakers 299
34. 24. ‘Here will be a Garden-City’: Soviet Man on an Arctic Construction Site 310
35. 25. Transcending the Sublime: Arctic Creolisation in the Works of Isaac Julien and John Akomfrah 325
36. 26. DJ Spooky and Dziga Vertov: Experimental Cinema Meets Digital Art in Exploring the Polar Regions 335
37. Notes on the Contributors 349
38. Index 356