Description:
1. This is the first book to explore the history of the creation of documentary cinema in and about the global Arctic region from Nanook of the North to the present day. It addresses key issues facing the study of Arctic documentary moving images, both those made in the Global North and those that, for various reasons, appropriate the North for their own aesthetic, cultural, or political ends.
2. Lilya Kaganovsky is a returning IU Press authors whose previous edited collection has won major awards. Scott Mackenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport are experts on Arctic cinemas who have also published widely.
3. IU Press publishes the main textbook in documentary film studies by Bill Nichols. This title is the first in the pipeline of a group of titles that will build up IUP's documentary studies offerings with cutting edge monographs and edited collections.
Review Quotes:
"Highly recommended."--Choice