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We interrogate and re-envision film representations of the Arctic from amateur documentary films between 1958 and 1996 in contrast to popular contemporary YouTube videos. Our selections are based upon amateur videos depicting scenes from Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow) in the Alaska Film Archives and contemporary YouTube films covering the same subject and exceeding 100,000 views. Since geographers first took on cinema from critical perspectives in the 1990s, they have probed the veracity of documentary films from the questions they ask to the way they are framed. We highlight convoluted nature/culture/video assemblages to say something about the Arctic and amateur filmmakers by re-visiting theoretical arguments on the material nature of spectacle from Guy Debord through Nietzsche.

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The Nature of Spectacle: Arctic Amateur Documentary Film from the 1950s to Present

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    2026年

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  • Daniel Grafton,
  • Stuart C. Aitken

摘要

We interrogate and re-envision film representations of the Arctic from amateur documentary films between 1958 and 1996 in contrast to popular contemporary YouTube videos. Our selections are based upon amateur videos depicting scenes from Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow) in the Alaska Film Archives and contemporary YouTube films covering the same subject and exceeding 100,000 views. Since geographers first took on cinema from critical perspectives in the 1990s, they have probed the veracity of documentary films from the questions they ask to the way they are framed. We highlight convoluted nature/culture/video assemblages to say something about the Arctic and amateur filmmakers by re-visiting theoretical arguments on the material nature of spectacle from Guy Debord through Nietzsche.