Changes in Film Representations of Sami Culture and Identity

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Skarðhamar, Anne Kari
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2008
• Subjects: Film; samisk kultur; samisk identitet; Nils Gaup; Per Høst; Lajla; Veiviseren; Kautokeinoopprøret; Nordic Colonialism; Kautokeino; Nils; Arctic; Finnmark; sami; samisk
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1346; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1346

My intention is to analyse changes in ideas and discursivestrategies in selected films from 1929 to 2007 as regardsrepresentations of Sami culture and Sami identity in Finnmark. In different ways the films indicate a conflict of cultures and point to problems of exploitation of indigenous peoples, w...