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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820197903321
• Autore: Evans Michael Robert <1959->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-55573-1; 9786612555732; 0-8032-2841-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (175 p.)
• Collana: Indigenous films
• Disciplina: 791.43/72
• Soggetti: Motion pictures
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Bison Books"--Spine.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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"),