A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the Arctic, this book supplies an original conceptualization of the Arctic as a visual world.

Markku Lehtimäki is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turku, Finland.

Arja Rosenholm is Professor of Russian Language and Culture at Tampere University, Finland.

Vlad Strukov is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds, UK, and a researcher at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia.

0. Introduction: Visualising the Arctic (Markku Lehtimäki, Arja Rosenholm and Vlad Strukov)

Part One: Visual poetics and historic cartographies

1. Maija Ojala-Fulwood: Arctic Regions in Early Modern Maps

2. Markku Lehtimäki: The Arctic That Was: Visual Poetics, Historical Narrative and Ian McGuire's The North Water

3. Lieven Ameel: Balloon Explorers, the Panorama, and the Making of an Arctic Nomos in Contemporary Fiction

Part Two: Mobile visuality and visual storytelling

4. Tintti Klapuri: The Winners of the Globe? The Russian Imperial Gaze at the North in Late Nineteenth-century Travelogues

5. Leena Romu: Dystopian Comics as Cautionary Tales about the Future of the Arctic

6. Elina Arminen: Come to Lapland! Changes and Continuities of Lapland Imagery in Finnish and International Travel Posters

7. Heidi Hansson and Ann-Catrine Eriksson: Cover Art and Content: Selling Arctic Crime Fiction

Part Three: The politics of Arctic visuality

8. Johannes Riquet: Cinema, Geopolitics, and Arctic Landscapes: The Cold Cold War in Orion's Belt

9. Klaus Dodds and Elana Wilson Rowe: Red Arctic? Affective Geopolitics and the 2007 Russian Flag-planting Incident in the Central Arctic Ocean

10. Robert A. Saunders: Arctic Bodies: Sights/Sites of Necrocorporeality in Nordic Noir Television Series

Part Four: Visual worlds of the Russian Arctic

11. Arja Rosenholm: The Masculine North in Popular Russian Film: Territoriia as a Case Study

12. Jane Costlow: Women Look North: Domesticities and the Sublime in Three Contemporary Russian Artists

13. Vlad Strukov: The Arctic on Display: Museums, Art and Haptic Visuality of the North

Part Five: Visual documentation and ethnography

14. Ivan Golovnev and Elena Golovneva: Traditional Ethno-Cultural Communities in the Modern Russian North: Oil Field as a Documentary Film Case

15. Dmitry Zamyatin: Geocultural Space of the Arctic: Landscape Visualization and Ontological Models of Imagination

16. Niko Partanen, Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur: Envisioning Digital Methods for Fieldwork in the Arctic