How Long to Read Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos

How Long Does it Take to Read Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 37 minutes to read Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos by Anna Westerstahl Stenport

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Description

A collection of essays analyzing the representation of the Arctic region in documentary films. Beginning with Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922), the majority of films that have been made in, about, and by filmmakers from the Arctic region have been documentary cinema. Focused on a hostile environment that few people visit, these documentaries have heavily shaped ideas about the contemporary global Far North. In Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos, contributors from a variety of scholarly and artistic backgrounds come together to provide a comprehensive study of Arctic documentary cinemas from a transnational perspective. This book offers a thorough analysis of the concept of the Arctic as it is represented in documentary filmmaking, while challenging the notion of “The Arctic” as a homogenous entity that obscures the environmental, historical, geographic, political, and cultural differences that characterize the region. By examining how the Arctic is imagined, understood, and appropriated in documentary work, the contributors argue that such films are key in contextualizing environmental, indigenous, political, cultural, sociological, and ethnographic understandings of the Arctic, from early cinema to the present. Understanding the role of these films becomes all the more urgent in the present day, as conversations around resource extraction, climate change, and sovereignty take center stage in the Arctic’s representation. “Highly recommended.” —Choice “A thorough exploration of the inexorable links between the circumpolar regions and historic and contemporary documentary filmmaking. It will b valuable to Arctic humanities specialists, particularly as a welcome addition to scholarship on visual depictions of the Arctic by authors such as Ann Fienup-Riordan, Richard Condon, Russell Potter, and Peter Geller, as well as Mackenzie and Westerstahl Steport’s earlier co-edited volume, Films on Ice. It will also be of use to anyone interested in ways of studying linkages between filmmaking, environments, and local and outsider communities.” —Sarah Pickman, Yale University, H-Environment, January 2020

How long is Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos?

Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos by Anna Westerstahl Stenport is 387 pages long, and a total of 99,459 words.

This makes it 131% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 3 minutes to read Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos aloud.

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Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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