“Who We Are Now”: Iñupiaq Youth On the Ice
This essay considers Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s 2011 feature film On the Ice, about Iñupiaq youth in Barrow, Alaska, in the context of Arctic and Indigenous cinemas and the American western. Reading the film through Inuit and Iñupiaq concepts and engaging with the film’s depictions of cultural syncret...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:f13a0b081d82422eb75ac9235eb79ac7 2023-05-15T14:50:44+02:00 “Who We Are Now”: Iñupiaq Youth On the Ice Joanna Hearne 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/f13a0b081d82422eb75ac9235eb79ac7 EN eng University of Toronto Libraries https://mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/29164 https://doaj.org/toc/1913-6005 1913-6005 https://doaj.org/article/f13a0b081d82422eb75ac9235eb79ac7 MediaTropes, Vol 7, Iss 1 (2017) Arctic film Indigenous film Native American film Iñupiaq culture in film youth culture in film Indigenous hip hop Visual arts N1-9211 Communication. Mass media P87-96 article 2017 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-31T02:41:34Z This essay considers Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s 2011 feature film On the Ice, about Iñupiaq youth in Barrow, Alaska, in the context of Arctic and Indigenous cinemas and the American western. Reading the film through Inuit and Iñupiaq concepts and engaging with the film’s depictions of cultural syncretism, Indigenous hip hop, Iñupiaq hunting culture, and film genres, the essay argues that Iñupiaq sovereignty of the camera, as an adaptive aesthetic practice, strengthens the work and the value of traditional knowledge in a connected world. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Barrow inuit Alaska Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic |
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This essay considers Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s 2011 feature film On the Ice, about Iñupiaq youth in Barrow, Alaska, in the context of Arctic and Indigenous cinemas and the American western. Reading the film through Inuit and Iñupiaq concepts and engaging with the film’s depictions of cultural syncretism, Indigenous hip hop, Iñupiaq hunting culture, and film genres, the essay argues that Iñupiaq sovereignty of the camera, as an adaptive aesthetic practice, strengthens the work and the value of traditional knowledge in a connected world. |
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