| Title |
Nanook of the North |
| Copyright Title |
Nanook of the North |
| Released |
1922 |
| Production Year |
0000 |
| Director |
Robert Flaherty
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| Comments |
Seminal ethnographic documentary, has enraged one of the most fiercely contested debates of doco film making, the issue of representation. Flaherty got Nanook to dress up in traditional costume and perform traditional rites which by this stage none of the Eskimo's of the area were performing. |
| Synopsis |
A romanticised day-in-the life of a North pole Eskimo. The film follows Nanook and his family in their battle for survival against the elements. |
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| book - About Documentary: Anthropology on Film . 00-00-1974 |
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Robert Edmonds
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| Covers oppositions between truth/veracity, objectivity/aesthetics and the role films can play in social issues. Attempts to define documentary and address is...[full record]
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| book - Claiming the Real . 00-00-1995 |
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Brian Winston
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| A critique of the principkes underpinning the dominant tradition of documentary filmaking, ie. the Grierson tradition. Takes a look at cinema verite, direct ...[full record]
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| book - Film on the Left . 00-00-1981 |
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Willliam Alexander
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| Historical overview of American left documentary filmaking (1931 - 1942), from the Workers' film and Photo League to Frontier Films.[full record]
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| book - They Must be Represented . 00-00-1994 |
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Paula Rabinowitz
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| Rabinowitz traces the origins of documentary from photography until the invention of vidoe verite and the Rodney Kink beating. In the process she deals with ...[full record]
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