- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What are Arctic Cinemas?
-
Part 1 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 -
8. Fact and Fiction in ‘Northerns’ and Early ‘Arctic’ Films -
9. California’s Yukon as Comic Space -
10. ‘See the Crashing Masses of White Death …’: Greenland, Germany and the Sublime in the ‘Bergfilm’ SOS Eisberg -
11. The Threat of the Thaw: The Cold War on the Screen -
12. Hollywood Does Iceland: Authenticity, Genericity and the Picturesque -
13. White on White: Twenty-First-Century Norwegian Horror Films Negotiate Masculinist Arctic Imaginaries -
Part III Ethnography and the Documentary Dilemma -
14. The Creative Treatment of Alterity: Nanook as the North -
15. From Objects to Actors: Knud Rasmussen’s Ethnographic Feature Film The Wedding of Palo -
16. Arctic Travelogues: Conquering the Soviet North -
17. A Gentle Gaze on the Colony: Jette Bang’s Documentary Filming in Greenland 1938–9 -
18. Exercise Musk-Ox: The Challenges of Filming a Military Expedition in Canada’s Arctic -
19. The Tour: A Film About Longyearbyen, Svalbard. An Interview with Eva la Cour -
Part IV Myths and Modes of Exploration -
20. The Changing Polar Films: Silent Films from Arctic Exploration 1900–30 -
21. The Attractions of the North: Early Film Expeditions to the Exotic Snowscape -
22. Frozen in Motion: Ethnographic Representation in Donald B. MacMillan’s Arctic Films -
23. ‘My Heart Beat for the Wilderness’: Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Jenny Gilbertson, Margaret Tait and Other Twentieth-Century Scottish Women Filmmakers -
24. ‘Here will be a Garden-City’: Soviet Man on an Arctic Construction Site -
25. Transcending the Sublime: Arctic Creolisation in the Works of Isaac Julien and John Akomfrah -
26. DJ Spooky and Dziga Vertov: Experimental Cinema Meets Digital Art in Exploring the Polar Regions - Notes on the Contributors
- Index
‘Who Were We? and What Happened to Us?’: Inuit Memory and Arctic Futures in Igloolik Isuma Film and Video
‘Who Were We? and What Happened to Us?’: Inuit Memory and Arctic Futures in Igloolik Isuma Film and Video
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- (p.33) 1. ‘Who Were We? and What Happened to Us?’: Inuit Memory and Arctic Futures in Igloolik Isuma Film and Video
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- Films on Ice
- Author(s):
Marian Bredin
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter analyses the history of one of the most successful indigenous film- and video-making groups, Nunavut’s Isuma. Based in Igloolik, Bredin charts the emergence of the group, as led by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn, while addressing the historical limitations on Inuit filmmaking in Canada. Bredin examines the impact of Isuma’s works both on indigenous filmmaking in the Arctic and in Canada, as well as on global art cinema. Bredin provides a detailed history of Isuma from its early days in community activism and Inuit video production, to its move into documentary and feature filmmaking. The chapter focuses on The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006) and also considers works such as Cannes award winner Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001). Bredin concludes with an analysis of Isuma’s distribution strategies and its goal to connect with both indigenous and non-indigenous audiences.
Keywords: Isuma, Nunavut, Zacharias Kunuk, indigenous cinemas, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, digital distribution, community activism
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: What are Arctic Cinemas?
-
Part 1 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 -
8. Fact and Fiction in ‘Northerns’ and Early ‘Arctic’ Films -
9. California’s Yukon as Comic Space -
10. ‘See the Crashing Masses of White Death …’: Greenland, Germany and the Sublime in the ‘Bergfilm’ SOS Eisberg -
11. The Threat of the Thaw: The Cold War on the Screen -
12. Hollywood Does Iceland: Authenticity, Genericity and the Picturesque -
13. White on White: Twenty-First-Century Norwegian Horror Films Negotiate Masculinist Arctic Imaginaries -
Part III Ethnography and the Documentary Dilemma -
14. The Creative Treatment of Alterity: Nanook as the North -
15. From Objects to Actors: Knud Rasmussen’s Ethnographic Feature Film The Wedding of Palo -
16. Arctic Travelogues: Conquering the Soviet North -
17. A Gentle Gaze on the Colony: Jette Bang’s Documentary Filming in Greenland 1938–9 -
18. Exercise Musk-Ox: The Challenges of Filming a Military Expedition in Canada’s Arctic -
19. The Tour: A Film About Longyearbyen, Svalbard. An Interview with Eva la Cour -
Part IV Myths and Modes of Exploration -
20. The Changing Polar Films: Silent Films from Arctic Exploration 1900–30 -
21. The Attractions of the North: Early Film Expeditions to the Exotic Snowscape -
22. Frozen in Motion: Ethnographic Representation in Donald B. MacMillan’s Arctic Films -
23. ‘My Heart Beat for the Wilderness’: Isobel Wylie Hutchison, Jenny Gilbertson, Margaret Tait and Other Twentieth-Century Scottish Women Filmmakers -
24. ‘Here will be a Garden-City’: Soviet Man on an Arctic Construction Site -
25. Transcending the Sublime: Arctic Creolisation in the Works of Isaac Julien and John Akomfrah -
26. DJ Spooky and Dziga Vertov: Experimental Cinema Meets Digital Art in Exploring the Polar Regions - Notes on the Contributors
- Index
