Abstract
This chapter explores the intersection between documentary and fictional films and their geographical representations of Greenland, including geopolitical relationships, agents and objects, ecologies, and indigenous communities. Our range in terms of themes and topics embraces US, Danish, and Greenlandic productions. The sample includes a multitude of genres, such as documentary, docudrama, and fictional, informed by historical experiences of Greenland as a Danish colony. Contemporary thrillers with embedded documentary material, such as Christina Rosendahl’s The Idealist (Idealisten, Denmark, 2015), provide further diversity because of its usage of archival footage of the 1968 US B-52 crash near Thule Air Base and of the subsequent clean-up operation.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos |
Editors | Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie, Anna Westerstahl Stenport |
Place of Publication | Bloomington |
Publisher | University of Indiana Press |
Number of pages | 29 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-253-04031-2 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-253-04030-5 |
Publication status | Published - 4 Jan 2019 |
Keywords
- Greenland
- Geopolitics
- Denmark
- Arctic
- documentary
- film
- indigenous peoples
- Cold War
- colonialism