- 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
Exercise Musk-Ox: The Challenges of Filming a Military Expedition in Canada’s Arctic
Exercise Musk-Ox: The Challenges of Filming a Military Expedition in Canada’s Arctic
- Chapter:
- (p.245) 18. Exercise Musk-Ox: The Challenges of Filming a Military Expedition in Canada’s Arctic
- Source:
- Films on Ice
- Author(s):
Caroline Forcier Holloway
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
This chapter by Canadian film archivist Caroline Forcier Holloway examines the extreme difficulty filmmakers in the 1930s faced filming in the Arctic. Interviewing many Canadian filmmakers from the era, including pioneering cinematographer Roger Racine, Holloway uncovers how film practitioners discovered new ways of filming in the Arctic’s extreme cold, with the help of the National Film Board of Canada and Eastman Kodak. Forcier Holloway also examines Canadian government Department of Defense documents that outline the reasons for Canadian military exercises in the Arctic and the documentaries that were made about these manoeuvres, including the film Exercise Musk-Ox (1946), which was released as a newsreel as part of the National Film Board of Canada’s Canada Carries On series.
Keywords: Canadian cinema, Documentary, National Film Board of Canada, World War II, Roger Racine, Eastman Kodak, Exercise Musk-Ox, Canada Carries On
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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
