The underground and end of geologic imaginations in the Finnish/Swedish TV Series White Wall

Bibliographic Data

ID5681978
AuthorsIrina Souch (0000-0001-6886-6001, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume19
Issue3
Pages314-331
Publication date2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-6020 • E-ISSN: 1749-6039
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/17496020241258712
OpenAlexW4399318195
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited33

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 Anthropocene. I also discuss how the series engages with fantastical nineteenth-century stories of Earth's exploration. Through dialogue with literary predecessors, White Wall grapples with how retrospective and prospective designations of the new geologic epoch collide

Art · Art history · Media studies · Sociology · Television series · History of Science and Natural History · Geology · Paleontology

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