{"626371":{"#nid":"626371","#data":{"type":"news","title":"What Arctic Cinema Can Tell Us About a Changing World","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEarly documentaries such as 1922\u0026rsquo;s\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ENanook of the North\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and even the 1951 alien invasion potboiler\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;The Thing From Another World\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;offer an image of the Artic as an ever-frozen, never-changing place of mystery that glosses over or distorts the cultures of those who live there.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, indigenous filmmakers\u0026mdash;particularly women, but all spurred by climate change\u0026mdash;are starting to change that.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/stenport\u0022\u003EAnna Westerstahl Stenport\u003C\/a\u003E, professor and chair in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/modlangs.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Modern Languages\u003C\/a\u003E, is among the world\u0026rsquo;s leading academics working to help better understand their contributions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStenport\u0026nbsp;is one of the pioneers of the burgeoning field of Arctic cinema studies. Learn more about her research in our feature, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/news-events\/features\/anna-stenport-arctic-cinema\u0022\u003E\u0026quot;Climate, Culture \u0026amp; Ice: What Arctic Cinema Can Tell Us About a Changing World.\u0026quot;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIndigineous filmakers, particularly women, are beginning to shatter the myth of a frozen, never-changing Arctic. School of Modern Lanagues Chair Anna Westerstahl Stenport is one of the world\u0026#39;s leading academics studying their work.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Anna Westerstahl Stenport, chair and professor in the School of Modern Languages, is a leading academic in the study of Arctic cinema"}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2019-09-18 18:58:19","changed_gmt":"2019-09-18 19:41:37","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-09-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"626373":{"id":"626373","type":"image","title":"Anna Westerstahl Stenport","body":null,"created":"1568833251","gmt_created":"2019-09-18 19:00:51","changed":"1568833251","gmt_changed":"2019-09-18 19:00:51","alt":"School of Modern Languages Chair and Professor Anna Westerstahl Stenport","file":{"fid":"238471","name":"RS428_Stenport Anna Westerstahl portrait w book 2019-08 5000x4000-scr.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS428_Stenport%20Anna%20Westerstahl%20portrait%20w%20book%202019-08%205000x4000-scr.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RS428_Stenport%20Anna%20Westerstahl%20portrait%20w%20book%202019-08%205000x4000-scr.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":215355,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RS428_Stenport%20Anna%20Westerstahl%20portrait%20w%20book%202019-08%205000x4000-scr.jpg?itok=j_A1PcdL"}}},"media_ids":["626373"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"176906","name":"Anna Westerstahl Stenport"},{"id":"167342","name":"School of Modern Languages"},{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"10400","name":"arctic"},{"id":"4787","name":"cinema"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMichael Pearson\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nmichael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.2290\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}