Ecology and contemporary Nordic cinemas from nation-building to ecocosmopolitanism / Pietari Kääpä.

SeriesTopics and issues in national cinema ; vol. 2
Contents Introduction: environmental history and Nordic film culture -- Nation-building in the Nordic context: natural history? -- The role of nature in the deer western and the road movie -- The horror film in an ecological context -- Ecocritical approaches to children's film -- Human ecology and the Nordic welfare state -- Green economics and the brownfields of the welfare state: crime thrillers and human ecology -- Intercultural approaches to Nordic cinema -- Ecocritical approaches to multicultural and minority cinemas -- Responsibility and the Nordic model: global Nordicness and ecocosmopolitan exceptionalism -- Ecodocumentaries and the sense of global responsibility -- Representing the end times: ecological melancholia and the end of the world openings and conclusions: transvergent perspectives on Nordic ecocinema.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-253) and index.
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LCCN 2013046795
ISBN9781441192790 (hardback)

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