Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
This chapter offers stylistic and thematic analyses of the cinematography and strategies of visual storytelling of Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001). Bohr provides an alternate reading of the Igloolik-based group Isuma’s best-known and Cannes award winning film. Bohr identifies di...
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credinunivpr:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0006 2023-05-15T16:53:37+02:00 Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner Bohr, Marco 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0006 unknown Edinburgh University Press Films on Ice book-chapter 2015 credinunivpr https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0006 2022-08-04T17:10:19Z This chapter offers stylistic and thematic analyses of the cinematography and strategies of visual storytelling of Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001). Bohr provides an alternate reading of the Igloolik-based group Isuma’s best-known and Cannes award winning film. Bohr identifies distinctive narrative techniques and cultural themes of the film, which tie it both to traditional Inuit myths and legends and to European art cinema, concluding by highlighting the ways in which Atanarjuat situates local practices in a global popular culture framework. Drawing on the concept of Fourth Cinema first proposed by Barry Barclay, Bohr positions Atanarjuat in the relation to emerging global international indigenous feature film production as well as to Michelle Raheja’s concept of visual sovereignty. Book Part Igloolik inuit Edinburgh University Press (via Crossref) Igloolik ENVELOPE(-81.800,-81.800,69.378,69.378) Barclay ENVELOPE(-61.000,-61.000,-62.600,-62.600) |
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This chapter offers stylistic and thematic analyses of the cinematography and strategies of visual storytelling of Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001). Bohr provides an alternate reading of the Igloolik-based group Isuma’s best-known and Cannes award winning film. Bohr identifies distinctive narrative techniques and cultural themes of the film, which tie it both to traditional Inuit myths and legends and to European art cinema, concluding by highlighting the ways in which Atanarjuat situates local practices in a global popular culture framework. Drawing on the concept of Fourth Cinema first proposed by Barry Barclay, Bohr positions Atanarjuat in the relation to emerging global international indigenous feature film production as well as to Michelle Raheja’s concept of visual sovereignty. |
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Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner |
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Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner |
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Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner |
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Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner |
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Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner |
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cinema of emancipation and zacharias kunuk’s atanarjuat: the fast runner |
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Edinburgh University Press |
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2015 |
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