Menacing Environments
Ecohorror in Contemporary Nordic Cinema
Series: New Directions in Scandinavian Studies;
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Product details:
- Publisher University of Washington Press
- Date of Publication 21 August 2023
- ISBN 9780295751641
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 322 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 14 b&w illus. Illustrations, black & white 539
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Long description:
Analyzes a film genre's confrontation of a regional identity
Known for their progressive environmental policies and nature-loving citizens, Nordic countries also produce what may seem a counterintuitive film genre: ecohorror, where distinctions between humans and nature are blurred in unsettling ways. From slashers to arthouse thrillers, transnational Nordic ecohorror films such as Antichrist (dir. Lars von Trier, 2009) and Midsommar (dir. Ari Aster, 2019) have garnered commercial and critical attention, revealing an undercurrent of ecophobia in Nordic culture that belies the region's reputation for environmental friendliness.
In Menacing Environments, Benjamin Bigelow examines how ecohorror rings some of the same alarm bells that climate activists have sounded, suggesting that the proper response to the ongoing climate catastrophe is not optimism and a market-friendly focus on sustainable development, but rather fear and dread. Bigelow argues that ecohorror destabilizes the two pillars of Nordic society?the autonomous individual and the sovereign state. He illustrates how doing away with any clean separation of the domains of human culture from a wild, untamed realm of nature reminds viewers of the complex and often threatening material entanglements between humans and their environments.
Through Bigelow's analysis, ecohorror proves to be a potent vehicle not only for generating a strong affective response in audiences but also for taking on the revered institutions, unquestioned ideological orthodoxies, and claims of cultural exceptionalism in contemporary Nordic societies.
Menacing Environments is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University of Minnesota.
DOI 10.6069/9780295751658
"The book particularly excels in its attention to the scope of horror and ecohorror subgenres. With attention to both 'high' and 'low' horror, Bigelow analyzes popular genres such as the slasher and pandemic film as well as less common, yet just as familiar, telekinetic, and folk horror subgenres. Bigelow's writing is also delightfully engaging and easy to follow. . . [H]is descriptions of the films [are] especially helpful, thorough, and captivating. Readers who are both new to and familiar with the horror genre alike will thus find something 'thrilling' within the pages of Bigelow's Menacing Environments."
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