The Fast Runner
One of the most important Native films of all time, Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner tells a powerful and moving story about honor, betrayal, vengeance, and redemption. Set in the vast, visually stunning Arctic landscape, it was the first feature film written, directed, and acted entirely in Inuktitut, t...
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ftunivnebraskali:oai:digitalcommons.unl.edu:unpresssamples-1097 2024-09-30T14:31:30+00:00 The Fast Runner Evans, Michael Robert 2010-04-01T07:00:00Z application/pdf https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/unpresssamples/98 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/unpresssamples/article/1097/viewcontent/Evans.pdf unknown DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/unpresssamples/98 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/unpresssamples/article/1097/viewcontent/Evans.pdf University of Nebraska Press: Sample Books and Chapters Arts and Humanities text 2010 ftunivnebraskali 2024-09-02T07:48:20Z One of the most important Native films of all time, Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner tells a powerful and moving story about honor, betrayal, vengeance, and redemption. Set in the vast, visually stunning Arctic landscape, it was the first feature film written, directed, and acted entirely in Inuktitut, the language of Canada’s Inuit people. Canada’s top-grossing release of 2002, the film became an international phenomenon, receiving the prestigious Camera d’Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival and earning rave reviews from every quarter, including Margaret Atwood (“like Homer with a video cameraâ€), Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Chirac, and Roger Ebert. “The Fast Runnerâ€: Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat takes readers behind the cameras, introducing them to the culture, history, traditions, and people that made this movie extraordinary. Michael Robert Evans explores how the epic film, perhaps the most significant text ever produced by indigenous filmmakers, artfully married the latest in video technology with the traditional storytelling of the Inuit. Tracing Atanarjuat from inception through production to reception, Evans shows how the filmmakers managed this complex intercultural “marriageâ€; how Igloolik Isuma Productions, the world’s premier indigenous film company, works; and how Inuit history and culture affected the film’s production, release, and worldwide response. His book is a unique, enlightening introduction and analysis of a film that serves as a model of autonomous media production for the more than 350 million indigenous people around the world. Text Arctic Igloolik inuit inuktitut University of Nebraska-Lincoln: DigitalCommons@UNL Arctic Atwood ENVELOPE(-142.283,-142.283,-77.267,-77.267) Igloolik ENVELOPE(-81.800,-81.800,69.378,69.378) Strauss ENVELOPE(-73.182,-73.182,-71.649,-71.649) |
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