The fast runner : filming the legend of Atanarjuat / Michael Robert Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Michael Robert, 1959-

Series:

Indigenous films.

Indigenous films

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Atanarjuat (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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"),

Contents:

The context of the creation

Seeing the unseen

The people and the path of Isuma

Isuma's motives

The legend and its variants

Reviews and awards

Lifeways as context

Local and global environments.

Notes:

"Bison Books"--Spine.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612555732

9781282555730

1282555731

9780803228412

0803228414

OCLC:

630535792