- 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
Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies
Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies
- Chapter:
- (p.59) 3. Frozen in Film: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies
- Source:
- Films on Ice
- Author(s):
Ann Fienup-Riordan
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter examines the history of Alaskan Eskimo representations, primarily in Hollywood, as Fienup-Riordan offers a detailed analysis of the career of Inuit film star Ray Mala, who starred in the the 1933 MGM production Eskimo, directed by W.S. Van Dyke, and the first film shot totally in the Iñupiaq language. The chapter also considers the ways in which Alaskan Eskimos have worked within the Hollywood system in a sporadic manner from the 1930s to the present. Fienup-Riordan also addresses Ken Kwapis’s Hollywood film Big Miracle (2012) before moving on to examine television (such as KYUK-TV), video, and cinematic self-representations of Yu’pik culture in the twenty first century, including as part of community activism in an age of climate change.
Keywords: Alaska, Yu’pik, Eskimo stereotypes, Hollywood, KYUK-TV, Ray Wise, Steven Seagal, Big Miracle, Ken Kwapis, Ray Mala, WS Van Dyke, Robert Flaherty, Nanook of the North
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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
