Ecology and Contemporary Nordic Cinemas From Nation-building to Ecocosmopolitanism

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.

Pietari Kaapa is a research fellow at the University of Helsinki, Finland. His research work synergizes transnational film and media studies with ecocriticism. Kaapa has published widely on transnational Finnish cinema and issues relating to ecocinema, including the antholgoy Transnational Ecocinemas: Film Culture in a Era of Ecological Depravation , as well as a special issue in Interactions: Studies in Communications and Culture on ecocinema in transnational China, and ecocinema and its audiences.

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