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Author: Robert Flaherty
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Published: 1998
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocuments one year in the life of Nanook, an Inuit and his family, based at Hopewell Sound in North Ungava. The documentary describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of an Inuit group barely touched by industrial technology. Nanook of the North was widely shown and praised as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history.
Author: William Rothman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-01-28
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521456814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of classic documentary film.
Author: Roswitha Skare
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783631674772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study takes as its point of departure the changes Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North underwent from its premiere, to the sound version of 1948, the film's restoration in the 1970s, and later editions on VHS and DVD.
Author: Robert J. Christopher
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780773528765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biographical study of the filmmaker Robert Flaherty and his wife Frances reveals, through unpublished diaries, their lives and careers prior to the release of his film 'Nanook of the North' in 1922.
Author: Barry Keith Grant
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 0814339727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocumenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balance between theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis.
Author: Comock
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781567922653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicle of a starving Eskimo family's journey to and subsequent ten-year stay on an island rich in food where they are the only human inhabitants. Illustrated by original Eskimo sketches.
Author: Lilya Kaganovsky
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2019-02-18
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0253040310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922), the majority of films that have been made in, about, and by filmmakers from the Arctic region have been documentary cinema. Focused on a hostile environment that few people visit, these documentaries have heavily shaped ideas about the contemporary global Far North. In Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos, contributors from a variety of scholarly and artistic backgrounds come together to provide a comprehensive study of Arctic documentary cinemas from a transnational perspective. This book offers a thorough analysis of the concept of the Arctic as it is represented in documentary filmmaking, while challenging the notion of "The Arctic" as a homogenous entity that obscures the environmental, historical, geographic, political, and cultural differences that characterize the region. By examining how the Arctic is imagined, understood, and appropriated in documentary work, the contributors argue that such films are key in contextualizing environmental, indigenous, political, cultural, sociological, and ethnographic understandings of the Arctic, from early cinema to the present. Understanding the role of these films becomes all the more urgent in the present day, as conversations around resource extraction, climate change, and sovereignty take center stage in the Arctic's representation.
Author: Luke Dormehl
Publisher: Oldacastle Books
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1842435922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Nanook of the North to Exit Through the Gift Shop, an overview of nonfiction film history from the early pioneers to the directors dominating the field todayAs one of the most fascinating areas of filmmaking, documentaries have broken down societal taboos, changed legislation, strengthened and rocked entire governments, freed wrongly convicted prisoners, and taught us more about the world in which we live. This overview of documentary history takes readers from the early "actualities" of pioneering nonfiction filmmakers such as Robert J. Flaherty and John Grierson, to the documentaries of Michael Moore, Errol Morris, Werner Herzog, and the directors dominating the field—and box office—today. An essential resource for film students, documentary buffs, filmmakers, and anyone interested in nonfiction film, it looks in-depth at more than 60 documentaries from around the world, covering a century of cinema, to illustrate what "documentary" means, and the changes and transitions that have occurred in nonfiction filmmaking over the years. Covering films such as Night Mail, Night and Fog, The Sorrow and the Pity, F for Fake, The Thin Blue Line, Hoop Dreams, Fahrenheit 9/11, Grizzly Man, and Man on Wire, each analysis includes an introductory synopsis, as well as detailed notes on the film's production history, filmmaker, unique innovations, construction, and key themes and issues.
Author: Jill Godmilow
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2022-03-22
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 0231554702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan the documentary be useful? Can a film change how its viewers think about the world and their potential role in it? In Kill the Documentary, the award-winning director Jill Godmilow issues an urgent call for a new kind of nonfiction filmmaking. She critiques documentary films from Nanook of the North to the recent Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series The Vietnam War. Tethered to what Godmilow calls the “pedigree of the real” and the “pornography of the real,” they fail to activate their viewers’ engagement with historical or present-day problems. Whether depicting the hardships of poverty or the horrors of war, conventional documentaries produce an “us-watching-them” mode that ultimately reinforces self-satisfaction and self-absorption. In place of the conventional documentary, Godmilow advocates for a “postrealist” cinema. Instead of offering the faux empathy and sentimental spectacle of mainstream documentaries, postrealist nonfiction films are acts of resistance. They are experimental, interventionist, performative, and transformative. Godmilow demonstrates how a film can produce meaningful, useful experience by forcefully challenging ways of knowing and how viewers come to understand the world. She considers her own career as a filmmaker as well as the formal and political strategies of artists such as Luis Buñuel, Georges Franju, Harun Farocki, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Rithy Panh, and other directors. Both manifesto and guidebook, Kill the Documentary proposes provocative new ways of making and watching films.
Author: Robert Joseph Flaherty
Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor's expeditions to Belcher Islands and Ungava, northern Canada, 1910-13.
