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- The Fast Runner: Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
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 camera”), Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Chirac, and Roger Ebert. “The Fast Runner”: 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 “marriage”; 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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- p. viii
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Series Editors' Introduction
- pp. xi-xiii
- Introduction
- pp. xv-xix
- Characters
- pp. xx-xxi
- Pronunciation of Names
- p. xxii
- Chapter Two: Seeing the Unseen
- pp. 19-31
- Chapter Four: Isuma's Motives
- pp. 48-62
- Chapter Six: Reviews and Awards
- pp. 86-100
- Chapter Seven: Lifeways as Context
- pp. 101-120
- Chapter Eight: Local and Global Environments
- pp. 121-126
- Bibliography
- pp. 131-133
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803228412
Related ISBN(s)
9780803222083
MARC Record
OCLC
651927376
Pages
176
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No