Robert And Frances Flaherty
Subtitle: A Documentary Life, 1883-1922 (Mcgill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: October 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780773528765
Subjects: Biography: general; Films, cinema; History; Biography / Autobiography; History: World; Arctic regions; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Movie Directors; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Reference; Biographies; Biography; Diaries; Motion picture producers and directors; Producteurs et râealisateurs de cinâema; United States; âEtats-Unis
First sentence: Robert Flaherty is best known as the maker of Nanook of the North, a film now regarded as seminal in American cinema history.
Description: "Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922) was the first full-length anthropological documentary in cinematic history. Drawing from the unpublished diaries of the director and his wife, Frances, Robert Christopher's biography deepens our understanding of a film legend and his groundbreaking work. Previous biographical work has neglected the critical contributions Frances made to his development as an artist. Robert and Frances Flaherty charts her transformation from a Bryn Mawr bluestocking to the partner of a frontier explorer and offers her unique perspective as his collaborator and publicist."--BOOK JACKET.