Visual representations of the Arctic : imagining shimmering worlds in culture, literature and politics / edited by Markku Lehtimäki, University of Turku; Arja Rosenholm, Tampere University; Vlad Strukov, University of Leeds.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xx, 349 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Introduction: Visualising the Arctic / Markku Lehtimäki, Arja Rosenholm and Vlad Strukov -- Arctic regions in early modern maps / Maija Ojala-Fulwood -- The Arctic that was : visual poetics, historical narrative and Ian McGuire's The north water / Markku Lehtimäki -- Balloon explorers, the panorama, and the making of an Arctic nomos in contemporary fiction / Lieven Ameel -- The winners of the globe? The Russian imperial gaze at the North in late nineteenth-century travelogues / Tintti Klapuri -- Dystopian comics as cautionary tales about the future of the Arctic / Leena Romu -- Come to Lapland! Changes and continuities of Lapland imagery in Finnish and international travel posters / Elina Arminen -- Cover art and content : selling Arctic crime fiction / Heidi Hansson and Ann-Catrine Eriksson -- Cinema, geopolitics, and Arctic landscapes : the cold Cold War in Orion's belt / Johannes Riquet -- Red Arctic? Affective geopolitics and the 2007 Russian flag-planting incident in the Central Arctic Ocean / Klaus Dodds and Elana Wilson Rowe -- Arctic bodies : sights/sites of necrocorporeality in Nordic noir television series / Robert A. Saunders -- The masculine North in popular Russian film : territoriia as a case study / Arja Rosenholm -- Women look North : domesticities and the sublime in three contemporary Russian artists / Jane Costlow -- The Arctic on display : museums, art and haptic visuality of the North / Vlad Strukov -- Traditional ethno-cultural communities in the modern Russian North : oil field as a documentary film case / Ivan Golovnev and Elena Golovneva -- Geocultural space of the Arctic : landscape visualization and ontological models of imagination / Dmitry Zamyatin -- Envisioning digital methods for fieldwork in the Arctic / Niko Partanen, Michael Riessler and Joshua Wilbur.
Summary:
"A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, this book supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; [134]
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.