Irina Souch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Irina Souch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Irina |
| FAMILY NAME | Souch |
| SIGNATURE | SOUCH I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6886-6001 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Landscapes in the frame: Anthropocene screens
The world is ending; yet, at the same time, we keep making new worlds. In his discussion of the ‘Third Nature,’ the Marxist geographer Neil Smith (2008) presaged such a paradox wherein human-fabricated simulacra of the (un)natural world around us via technological means (analogue, digital, cinematic, televisual, AI-generated) would function as part of a continuance of capitalist-neoliberal exploitation of all resources, whether human, fauna, flor…
The underground and end of geologic imaginations in the Finnish/Swedish TV Series White Wall
In this article, I analyse how underground landscapes are represented in the Finnish/Swedish television series, White Wall (2020). Subterranean imaginations, I argue, help reconceptualise the agency of the inorganic, mineral and geological along with that of the biological and social. Juxtaposing the underground with the surface, White Wall unfolds not only horizontal but also vertical ways of thinking about human/non-human relations in the Anthr…
Romance in the cowshed: Challenging and reaffirming the rural idyll in the Dutch reality TV show Farmer Wants a Wife
This paper examines the representation of rural life in the immensely popular Dutch version of the reality TV show Farmer Wants a Wife (2004-present). It asks whether this representation manages to move beyond the persistent association of rural life with the idyll, which, as many rural scholars have noted, prevents important aspects of contemporary rural life from being seen and understood. A comparative visual and narrative analysis of the firs…
Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film
This book is an exploration of the changes in Russian cultural identity in the twenty years after the fall of the Soviet state. Through close readings of a select number of contemporary Russian films and television series, Irina Souch investigates how a variety of popular cultural tropes ranging from the patriarchal family to the country idyll survived the demise of Communism and maintained their power to inform the Russian people's self-image. S…
Romance in the cowshed: Challenging and reaffirming the rural idyll in the Dutch reality TV show Farmer Wants a Wife
This paper examines the representation of rural life in the immensely popular Dutch version of the reality TV show Farmer Wants a Wife (2004-present). It asks whether this representation manages to move beyond the persistent association of rural life with the idyll, which, as many rural scholars have noted, prevents important aspects of contemporary rural life from being seen and understood. A comparative visual and narrative analysis of the firs…
Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film
This book is an exploration of the changes in Russian cultural identity in the twenty years after the fall of the Soviet state. Through close readings of a select number of contemporary Russian films and television series, Irina Souch investigates how a variety of popular cultural tropes ranging from the patriarchal family to the country idyll survived the demise of Communism and maintained their power to inform the Russian people's self-image. S…
Romance in the cowshed: Challenging and reaffirming the rural idyll in the Dutch reality TV show Farmer Wants a Wife
This paper examines the representation of rural life in the immensely popular Dutch version of the reality TV show Farmer Wants a Wife (2004-present). It asks whether this representation manages to move beyond the persistent association of rural life with the idyll, which, as many rural scholars have noted, prevents important aspects of contemporary rural life from being seen and understood. A comparative visual and narrative analysis of the firs…
Landscapes in the frame: Anthropocene screens
The world is ending; yet, at the same time, we keep making new worlds. In his discussion of the ‘Third Nature,’ the Marxist geographer Neil Smith (2008) presaged such a paradox wherein human-fabricated simulacra of the (un)natural world around us via technological means (analogue, digital, cinematic, televisual, AI-generated) would function as part of a continuance of capitalist-neoliberal exploitation of all resources, whether human, fauna, flor…
The underground and end of geologic imaginations in the Finnish/Swedish TV Series White Wall
In this article, I analyse how underground landscapes are represented in the Finnish/Swedish television series, White Wall (2020). Subterranean imaginations, I argue, help reconceptualise the agency of the inorganic, mineral and geological along with that of the biological and social. Juxtaposing the underground with the surface, White Wall unfolds not only horizontal but also vertical ways of thinking about human/non-human relations in the Anthr…
Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · Anthropocene (1 works) · Art history (1 works) · Cognitive dissonance (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)