From Objects to Actors: Knud Rasmussen’s Ethnographic Feature Film The Wedding of Palo

This chapter examines one of Denmark’s best-known ethnographic fiction feature films, Knud Rasmussen’s The Wedding of Palo (1934), directed by Friedrich Dalsheim, and shot in Western Greenland. While in many ways a documentary in the salvage ethnography tradition of the first part of the twentieth c...

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Main Author: Volquardsen, Ebbe
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2015
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0016