Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Traditions in World Cinema
- Introduction: What are Arctic Cinemas?
- PART I GLOBAL INDIGENEITY
- 1 ‘Who Were We? And What Happened to Us?’: Inuit Memory and Arctic Futures in Igloolik Isuma Film and Video
- 2 Northern Exposures and Marginal Critiques: The Politics of Sovereignty in Sámi Cinema
- 3 Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies
- 4 Cultural Stereotypes and Negotiations in Sámi Cinema
- 5 Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
- 6 Cosmopolitan Inuit: New Perspectives on Greenlandic Film
- 7 Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola
- PART II HOLLYWOOD HEGEMONY
- PART III ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE DOCUMENTARY DILEMMA
- PART IV MYTHS AND MODES OF EXPLORATION
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
5 - Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
from PART I - GLOBAL INDIGENEITY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Traditions in World Cinema
- Introduction: What are Arctic Cinemas?
- PART I GLOBAL INDIGENEITY
- 1 ‘Who Were We? And What Happened to Us?’: Inuit Memory and Arctic Futures in Igloolik Isuma Film and Video
- 2 Northern Exposures and Marginal Critiques: The Politics of Sovereignty in Sámi Cinema
- 3 Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies
- 4 Cultural Stereotypes and Negotiations in Sámi Cinema
- 5 Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
- 6 Cosmopolitan Inuit: New Perspectives on Greenlandic Film
- 7 Arctic Carnivalesque: Ethnicity, Gender and Transnationality in the Films of Tommy Wirkola
- PART II HOLLYWOOD HEGEMONY
- PART III ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE DOCUMENTARY DILEMMA
- PART IV MYTHS AND MODES OF EXPLORATION
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- Films on IceCinemas of the Arctic, pp. 84 - 96Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014