- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What are Arctic Cinemas?
-
Part 1 Global Indigeneity -
1. ‘Who Were We? and What Happened to Us?’: Inuit Memory and Arctic Futures in Igloolik Isuma Film and Video -
2. Northern Exposures and Marginal Critiques: The Politics of Sovereignty in Sámi Cinema -
3. Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies -
4. Cultural Stereotypes and Negotiations in Sámi Cinema -
5. Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner -
6. Cosmopolitan Inuit: New Perspectives on Greenlandic Film -
7. Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola -
Part II Hollywood Hegemony -
8. Fact and Fiction in ‘Northerns’ and Early ‘Arctic’ Films -
9. California’s Yukon as Comic Space -
10. ‘See the Crashing Masses of White Death …’: Greenland, Germany and the Sublime in the ‘Bergfilm’ SOS Eisberg -
11. The Threat of the Thaw: The Cold War on the Screen -
12. Hollywood Does Iceland: Authenticity, Genericity and the Picturesque -
13. White on White: Twenty-First-Century Norwegian Horror Films Negotiate Masculinist Arctic Imaginaries -
Part III Ethnography and the Documentary Dilemma -
14. The Creative Treatment of Alterity: Nanook as the North -
15. From Objects to Actors: Knud Rasmussen’s Ethnographic Feature Film The Wedding of Palo -
16. Arctic Travelogues: Conquering the Soviet North -
17. A Gentle Gaze on the Colony: Jette Bang’s Documentary Filming in Greenland 1938–9 -
18. Exercise Musk-Ox: The Challenges of Filming a Military Expedition in Canada’s Arctic -
19. The Tour: A Film About Longyearbyen, Svalbard. An Interview with Eva la Cour -
Part IV Myths and Modes of Exploration -
20. The Changing Polar Films: Silent Films from Arctic Exploration 1900–30 -
21. The Attractions of the North: Early Film Expeditions to the Exotic Snowscape -
22. Frozen in Motion: Ethnographic Representation in Donald B. MacMillan’s Arctic Films -
23. ‘My Heart Beat for the Wilderness’: Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Jenny Gilbertson, Margaret Tait and Other Twentieth-Century Scottish Women Filmmakers -
24. ‘Here will be a Garden-City’: Soviet Man on an Arctic Construction Site -
25. Transcending the Sublime: Arctic Creolisation in the Works of Isaac Julien and John Akomfrah -
26. DJ Spooky and Dziga Vertov: Experimental Cinema Meets Digital Art in Exploring the Polar Regions - Notes on the Contributors
- Index
White on White: Twenty-First-Century Norwegian Horror Films Negotiate Masculinist Arctic Imaginaries
White on White: Twenty-First-Century Norwegian Horror Films Negotiate Masculinist Arctic Imaginaries
- Chapter:
- (p.187) 13. White on White: Twenty-First-Century Norwegian Horror Films Negotiate Masculinist Arctic Imaginaries
- Source:
- Films on Ice
- Author(s):
Sabine Henlin-Strømme
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
Identifying how the appropriation of Hollywood horror films engage with the notion of an Arctic sublime, this chapter examines how contemporary Norwegian horror films are mobilised partly to subvert the gender and ethnicity hierarchies predominant in the Heroic Polar Exploration narratives of Norway, established by Nansen, Amundsen, and others. Foregrounding feminist critiques of the horror genre by Carol J. Clover and Barbara Creed and identifying the rise in Norwegian popular genre films such as ‘skrekkfilm’ (horror and gore), Henlin-Strømme focuses the discussion on films such as Roar Uthaug Cold Prey (2006) and Tommy Wirkola Dead Snow (2009). The chapter addresses how dominant historical narratives of the Arctic can begin to be renegotiated through forms of popular global culture.
Keywords: horror film, Norwegian film, Norweganization, Masculinity, Cold Prey, Dead Snow, Tommy Wirkola, feminist critiques
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What are Arctic Cinemas?
-
Part 1 Global Indigeneity -
1. ‘Who Were We? and What Happened to Us?’: Inuit Memory and Arctic Futures in Igloolik Isuma Film and Video -
2. Northern Exposures and Marginal Critiques: The Politics of Sovereignty in Sámi Cinema -
3. Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies -
4. Cultural Stereotypes and Negotiations in Sámi Cinema -
5. Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner -
6. Cosmopolitan Inuit: New Perspectives on Greenlandic Film -
7. Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola -
Part II Hollywood Hegemony -
8. Fact and Fiction in ‘Northerns’ and Early ‘Arctic’ Films -
9. California’s Yukon as Comic Space -
10. ‘See the Crashing Masses of White Death …’: Greenland, Germany and the Sublime in the ‘Bergfilm’ SOS Eisberg -
11. The Threat of the Thaw: The Cold War on the Screen -
12. Hollywood Does Iceland: Authenticity, Genericity and the Picturesque -
13. White on White: Twenty-First-Century Norwegian Horror Films Negotiate Masculinist Arctic Imaginaries -
Part III Ethnography and the Documentary Dilemma -
14. The Creative Treatment of Alterity: Nanook as the North -
15. From Objects to Actors: Knud Rasmussen’s Ethnographic Feature Film The Wedding of Palo -
16. Arctic Travelogues: Conquering the Soviet North -
17. A Gentle Gaze on the Colony: Jette Bang’s Documentary Filming in Greenland 1938–9 -
18. Exercise Musk-Ox: The Challenges of Filming a Military Expedition in Canada’s Arctic -
19. The Tour: A Film About Longyearbyen, Svalbard. An Interview with Eva la Cour -
Part IV Myths and Modes of Exploration -
20. The Changing Polar Films: Silent Films from Arctic Exploration 1900–30 -
21. The Attractions of the North: Early Film Expeditions to the Exotic Snowscape -
22. Frozen in Motion: Ethnographic Representation in Donald B. MacMillan’s Arctic Films -
23. ‘My Heart Beat for the Wilderness’: Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Jenny Gilbertson, Margaret Tait and Other Twentieth-Century Scottish Women Filmmakers -
24. ‘Here will be a Garden-City’: Soviet Man on an Arctic Construction Site -
25. Transcending the Sublime: Arctic Creolisation in the Works of Isaac Julien and John Akomfrah -
26. DJ Spooky and Dziga Vertov: Experimental Cinema Meets Digital Art in Exploring the Polar Regions - Notes on the Contributors
- Index
