Nanook Revisited

Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North created the very genre of film documentary, with its documentation of Nanook the Inuit and the Eskimo traditions which were even then being threatened by the influences of whites. This program revisits the site of Flaherty's filming, and learns that he...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: SFP Productions (IMA)
Format: Moving Image (Video)
Language:unknown
Published: 1992
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/60447
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Summary:Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North created the very genre of film documentary, with its documentation of Nanook the Inuit and the Eskimo traditions which were even then being threatened by the influences of whites. This program revisits the site of Flaherty's filming, and learns that he staged much of what he filmed, sired children to whose future he paid no heed, and is himself now part of Inuit myth.