Introduction: environmental history and Nordic film culture ; Nation-building in the Nordic context: natural history? ; The role of nature in the deer western and the road movie ; The horror film in an ecological context ; Ecocritical approaches to children's film ; Human ecology and the Nordic welfare state ; Green economics and the brownfields of the welfare state: crime thrillers and human ecology ; Intercultural approaches to Nordic cinema ; Ecocritical approaches to multicultural and minority cinemas ; Responsibility and the Nordic model: global Nordicness and ecocosmopolitan exceptionalism ; Ecodocumentaries and the sense of global responsibility ; Representing the end times: ecological melancholia and the end of the world openings and conclusions: transvergent perspectives on Nordic ecocinema.