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Riquet, J. (2021) Cinema, Geopolitics, and Arctic Landscapes: The Cold Cold War in Orion's Belt. Lehtimäki, M., Rosenholm, A. & Strukov, V. (Eds.), Visual Representations of the Arctic. Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics. Added by: Natalia Mikhailova (2021-06-08 13:28:08) Last edited by: Natalia Mikhailova (2021-06-08 13:29:18) |
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Categories: Scandinavia Keywords: arctic discourse, arctic space, cinema, cultural landscape, ethnocultural landscape, geopolitics, visual representation Creators: Lehtimäki, Riquet, Rosenholm, Strukov Publisher: Routledge Collection: Visual Representations of the Arctic. Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics |
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This chapter explores the relations between two kinds of cold: the literal cold of Arctic landscapes and the figurative cold of Cold War politics. It examines the central role of the Arctic in the affective visual regime generated by the geopolitical climate of the Cold War. The resurfacing of the Arctic sublime in Cold War popular culture speaks to the mutual implication of visual culture and geopolitics during the Cold War. The chapter argues that Orion’s Belt develops a visual poetics of unreadability and invisibility to politicise its Arctic landscapes. It discusses the imaginative links between the Arctic and the Cold War before developing a close analysis of the film’s narrative and aesthetic treatment of Arctic landscape as a visually disorienting and opaque space invested with geopolitical meaning. The Arctic was a crucial theatre of real and imagined Cold War activities.
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