[ecrea] New book publication announcement: Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas

New book publication announcement:

ECOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY NORDIC CINEMAS

PIETARI KÄÄPÄ (University of Stirling)

Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas challenges the traditional 
socio-political rhetoric of national cinema by providing an ecocritical 
examination of Nordic cinema. The author uses a range of analytical 
approaches to interrogate how the national paradigm can be rethought 
through ecosystemic concerns, by exploring a range of Nordic films as 
national and transnational, regional and local texts, all with 
significant global implications. By synergizing transnational theories 
with ecological approaches, the study considers the planetary 
implications of nation-based cultural production. The study of 
‘ecocinema' involves considering the role film culture performs in 
communicating and consolidating understandings of not only the natural 
world but also the role of humans as part of this world. As such 
conceptualizations move well beyond conventional environmentalist rhetoric,

Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinema interrogates not only the role of 
nature in cinema, but also contemporary human habitations, global 
politics, ideological norms, and ecosystemic relations. While these are 
all of course vital aspects of Nordic cinemas, especially as nature and 
environmentalism feature centrally in Nordic self-conceptualisations, 
the scope of the book is, by necessity, concerned with the role of the 
human as part of a planetary ecosystem. This is the first study of its 
kind to cover the whole of the Nordic region and its multiple ecological 
intersections.

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Environmental history and Nordic film culture

Chapter 1. Nation-building in the Nordic context: Natural history?

Chapter 2. The role of nature in the deer western and the road movie

Chapter 3. The horror film in an ecological context

Chapter 4. Ecocritical approaches to children’s film

Chapter 5. Human ecology and the Nordic welfare state

Chapter 6. Green economics and the brownfields of the welfare state: 
crime thrillers and human ecology

Chapter 7. Intercultural approaches to Nordic cinema

Chapter 8. Ecocritical approaches to multicultural and minority cinemas

Chapter 9. Responsibility and the Nordic model: Global Nordicness and 
ecocosmopolitan exceptionalism

Chapter 10. Ecodocumentaries and the sense of global responsibility

Chapter 11. Representing the end times: Ecological melancholia and the 
end of the world

Openings and conclusions: Transvergent perspectives on Nordic ecocinema

Bibliography

Index
Reviews

“The quality and depth of the references in this book provide a new 
platform and focus for ecocinema scholarship. [with] fascinating 
chapters including studies of deer western and road movies; the horror 
film; children’s film; crime and urban eco-narratives, alongside 
specific Nordic multicultural and minority concerns, drawing from a 
broad corpus of films and documentaries. This multi-faceted and 
convincing study will inspire scholars and help to draw further 
comparisons with Hollywood and other national cinemas well into the 
future.” –  Pat Brereton, Head of the School of Communications, Dublin 
City University, Ireland,

“Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas shows how film has helped 
create Nordic love for nature, but also how film works to conceal a 
Nordic history of the exploitation of nature. The study explores 
ecocritical approaches to genre, ideologies of the welfare state, 
globalization, transnationalism, and green activism in the cinema. All 
this is developed in a theory of transvergent ecocriticism, which helps 
the reader see newly emergent forms of environmental consciousness. 
Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas will be required reading for 
anyone interested in Nordic cinema or ecocriticism and film.” –  Andrew 
Nestingen, Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington, USA
- See more at: 
http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ecology-and-contemporary-nordic-cinemas-9781441192790/#sthash.iptHzRt7.dpuf

--
Dr. Pietari Kääpä
Lecturer in Communications, Media and Culture
University of Stirling
FK9 4LA
Stirling
Scotland

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