Cinema of Emancipation and Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 12 - 1325078
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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10.3366/j.ctt14brwjm
- Book title
- Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474409018
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Design Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This chapter is the first serious academic treatise of Zacharias Kunuk’s ground-breaking film ‘Atanarjuat – The Fast Runner’ (2001) which was filmed in a small Inuit community in Nunavut, in northern Canada. The film received the prestigious film award Caméra d'Or in 2001 and the director’s production company Isuma represented Canada at the 2019 Venice Biennale. In spite of these international accolades, Kunuk’s oeuvre has received scarce attention both in Canada and internationally with very few publications taking an in-depth and analytical approach to his methods as a filmmaker. This chapter highlights the innovative form of storytelling of the film whilst also providing a detailed deconstruction of the visual methodologies that underpin the narrative. The chapter analyses the film in relation to ‘Fourth Cinema’, a classification that points to the global emergence of indigenous cinematic production on the periphery to the assumed centres of cinema. The chapter was selected as well as peer-reviewed by the two editors of the book, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport, for the publication in the anthology ‘Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic’. The anthology is considered to be the first academic book to investigate the relationship between cinema and the arctic. The closest relevant competing publications, both of which have been published more recently, are ‘Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos’ (also co-edited by MacKenzie) as well as ‘A Companion to Nordic Cinema’. ‘Films on Ice’ shifted the discourse in the field towards recognizing Artic Cinema as its own distinct cinematic genre. In a book review, the journal Nordicum-Mediterranueum claims that ‘Films on Ice’ is laying the ‘foundation for a new, counter history of film.’ Bohr’s chapter was cited in relation to ‘Atanarjuat’ in ‘The Oxford Companion to Canadian Cinema’ published in 2019.
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- Non-English
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