UID:
almahu_9949386836702882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 349 pages) :
,
illustrations (black and white)
ISBN:
1000366332
,
9781000366334
,
9781003158295
,
1003158293
,
9781000366372
,
1000366375
Series Statement:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature
Content:
Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, it supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world encompassing an array of representations, imaginings, and constructions. By examining a broad range of visual forms, media and forms such as art, film, graphic novels, maps, media, and photography, the book advances current debates about visual culture. The book enriches contemporary theories of the visual taking the Arctic as a spatial entity and also as a mode of exploring contemporary and historical visual practices, including imaginary constructions of the North. Original contributions include case studies from all the countries along the Arctic shore, with Russian material occupying a large section due to the country's impact on the region
Note:
Introduction: Visualising the Arctic -- Part I. Visual poetics and historic cartographies. Arctic regions in early modern maps -- The Arctic that was : visual poetics, historical narrative and Ian McGuire's The north water -- Balloon explorers, the panorama, and the making of an Arctic Nomos in contemporary fiction -- Part II. Mobile visuality and visual storytelling. The winners of the globe? The Russian imperial gaze at the north in late Nineteenth-century travelogues -- Dystopian comics as cautionary tales about the future of the Arctic -- Come to Lapland! Changes and continuities of Lapland imagery in Finnish and international travel posters -- Cover art and content : selling Arctic crime fiction -- Part III. The politics of Arctic visuality. Cinema, geopolitics, and Arctic landscapes : the cold, cold war in Orion's belt -- Red Arctic? Affective geopolitics and the 2007 Russian flag-planting incident in the Central Arctic Ocean -- Arctic bodies : sights/sites of necrocorporeality in Nordic noir television series -- Part IV. Visual worlds of the Russian Arctic. The masculine north in popular Russian film : Territoriia as a case study -- Women look north : domesticities and the sublime in three contemporary Russian artists -- The Arctic on display : museums, art and haptic visuality of the north -- Part V. Visual documentation and ethnography. Traditional ethno-cultural communities in the modern Russian North : Oil field as a documentary film case -- Geo-cultural space of the Arctic : landscape visualization and ontological models of imagination -- Envisioning digital methods for fieldwork in the Arctic.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780367460662
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
;
Art.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003158295
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003158295
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