The fast runner
Subtitle: filming the legend of Atanarjuat
By: Michael Robert Evans
Series: Indigenous films
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780803222083
Description: "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." ""The Fast Runner": Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat takes readers behind the cameras, introducing them to the culture, history, traditions, and people that made this movie extraordinary. Michael Robert Evans explores how the epic film, perhaps the most significant text ever produced by indigenous filmmakers, artfully married the latest in video technology with the traditional storytelling of the Inuit. Tracing Atanarjuat from inception through production to reception, Evans shows how the filmmakers managed this complex intercultural "marriage"; how Igloolik Isuma Productions, the world's premier indigenous film company, works; and how Inuit history and culture affected the film's production, release, and worldwide response. His book is a unique, enlightening introduction and analysis of a film that serves as a model of autonomous media production for the more than 350 million indigenous people around the world."--Jacket.
Notes: "Bison Books"--Spine.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-133) and index.
Table of contents: title: The context of the creation; title: Seeing the unseen; title: The people and the path of Isuma; title: Isuma's motives; title: The legend and its variants; title: Reviews and awards; title: Lifeways as context; title: Local and global environments.