...This chapter challenges the exclusion of literature in Irish from orthodox accounts of Irish modernism. Taking up Robert Flaherty’s fictionalized docudrama Man of Aran, a highly romanticized portrait of the Aran islanders’ manly struggle for survival in a rugged, unforgiving...

... Inuit Robert Flaherty Nanook of the North Thule International Polar Year Ethnography ethnographic filmmaking modernity modernization Among a memorable series of Arctic explorers, scientists and adventurers during the past centuries, few women stand out. One exception is Jette Bang (1914–64...

... voyeurism Benelli Dana Buck Frank Hays Will Ingagi Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Van Dyke W S Fiji and Samoa King Kong Travel Talks YouTube educational films remediation travelogue virtual travel body genres illustrated lectures Robert Flaherty Nanook of the North...

... stereotypes Hollywood KYUK-TV Ray Wise Steven Seagal Big Miracle Ken Kwapis Ray Mala WS Van Dyke Robert Flaherty Nanook of the North In 1995 I published a book entitled Freeze Frame: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies. By that time, I had already worked as a cultural anthropologist...

...This chapter examines the many re-iterations of Robert Flaherty’s influential film Nanook of the North (1922) to show how this key documentary film has been re-imagined and re-articulated in documentaries such as Claude Massot’s Nanook Revisited (1990), feature...

... of the twentieth century, and sharing many similarities with Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922), Volquardsen examines the significance of this film for the contested geopolitical status of Greenland in the early 1930s. Foregrounding the venerable status of Knud Rasmussen as an explorer...