Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola
This chapter examines the way in which Sámi filmmaker Tommy Wirkola ironically appropriates contemporary Hollywood films such as The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003-4) to create ironic, postmodern genres films that address questions of ethnicity and gender. Iversen...
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credinunivpr:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0008 2023-05-15T15:01:23+02:00 Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola Iversen, Gunnar 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0008 unknown Edinburgh University Press Films on Ice book-chapter 2015 credinunivpr https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0008 2022-08-04T19:26:17Z This chapter examines the way in which Sámi filmmaker Tommy Wirkola ironically appropriates contemporary Hollywood films such as The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003-4) to create ironic, postmodern genres films that address questions of ethnicity and gender. Iversen examines the way in which Wirkola’s films made in Norway such as Kill Buljo: The Movie (2007) and the ‘Nazi zombie horror splatter comedy’ Dead Snow (2009) appropriate the horror genre to tell stories about traumatic events in Northern Norwegian history -- such as the German invasion during Second World War -- while incorporating visual references to European and Scandinavian art cinema. Iversen also analyses the representations of masculinity in Knut Erik Jensen’s Cool and Crazy (2001). Book Part Arctic Edinburgh University Press (via Crossref) Arctic Blair ENVELOPE(160.817,160.817,-72.533,-72.533) Norway |
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This chapter examines the way in which Sámi filmmaker Tommy Wirkola ironically appropriates contemporary Hollywood films such as The Blair Witch Project (1999) and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003-4) to create ironic, postmodern genres films that address questions of ethnicity and gender. Iversen examines the way in which Wirkola’s films made in Norway such as Kill Buljo: The Movie (2007) and the ‘Nazi zombie horror splatter comedy’ Dead Snow (2009) appropriate the horror genre to tell stories about traumatic events in Northern Norwegian history -- such as the German invasion during Second World War -- while incorporating visual references to European and Scandinavian art cinema. Iversen also analyses the representations of masculinity in Knut Erik Jensen’s Cool and Crazy (2001). |
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Iversen, Gunnar Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola |
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Iversen, Gunnar |
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Iversen, Gunnar |
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Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola |
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Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola |
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Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola |
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Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola |
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Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola |
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arctic carnivalesque: ethnicity, gender and transnationality in the films of tommy wirkola |
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Edinburgh University Press |
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2015 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0008 |
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Arctic |
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Films on Ice |
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