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Witbeck, Camille.

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Dirtying the North: Visions of Trash in Nordic Film and Media.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dirtying the North: Visions of Trash in Nordic Film and Media./
Author:	Witbeck, Camille.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	201 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-02B.
Subject:	Scandinavian studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28546076
ISBN:	9798535500201

Dirtying the North: Visions of Trash in Nordic Film and Media.
Witbeck, Camille.

Dirtying the North: Visions of Trash in Nordic Film and Media. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 201 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This project examines how the Nordic countries, with their reputations for cleanliness in urban management, interior design, and environmental stewardship, imagine their relationships to trash, as seen through visual culture, film, and media. Engaging with material ecocritical literature, Prismatic Ecology, and Heather Sullivan's "dirt theory," as well as discourses on the figures of waste, I argue that Nordic texts such as The Hunt, The Bridge, Pusher, Metropia, Songs from the Second Floor, Something Must Break, The Charmer, and The Man Without a Past are sites where tensions about trash's role in Nordic consumer culture, human built environments, and the natural environment are represented, contested, and reimagined. Establishing stereotypes of the Nordic countries as environmentally exceptional, the dissertation traces out discourses of purity and hygiene in popular international films, tourist websites, Scandinavian design, and the beginnings of the welfare state. In these discourses, repeated visual tropes and logics about the countries produce an image of a green, white, and clean Scandinavia, but these colors are often achieved by omitting Norden's connections to global ecological damage through participation in Western consumerism. This image of clean and green sets up a strong contrast to what I call "Nordic visions of trash," a collection of films and television shows that use the symbolic dirtiness of trash to bring attention to social and environmental problems. Visible trash on screen plays against normative expectations in cultures that have otherwise designed trash to be out of sight, providing for a subversive potential that often points to critiques of the welfare states under neoliberal revision since the 1980s. While the first section of these texts mainly figure trash in order to gesture towards social anxieties, other texts represent trash also as an environmental problem. In these futuristic dystopian visions of the Anthropocene, humans are forced to live with overwhelming mounds of persistent trash, suffering the consequences with a passivity either due to ecologically noir attitudes or, as I argue, a dirt phobia inherited from modernity. In both of these sections, trash is seen as a negative force that threatens and harms; in the final section, however, texts imagine how to overlook dirty stigmas of discarded items, working against consumerist markets to keep reusing second-hand and already-existing objects. Adding to the scholarship of waste studies, Scandinavia film studies and ecocriticism, this project ultimately wonders if the aesthetics of sustainability that should be advocated for are messier, more colorful, dark, old, ugly, and even cluttered, instead of Scandinavia's streamlined, bright, green, clean, and white.

ISBN: 9798535500201Subjects--Topical Terms:

3176828
Scandinavian studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Aki Kaurismaki

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