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Robert and Frances Flaherty : A Documentary Life, 1883-1922.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern StudiesPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (478 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773572775
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Robert and Frances FlahertyDDC classification:
  • 791.43/023/092
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.F59 C47 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Boy from Iron Mountain -- The Islands That Were Not There," 1884-1904 -- 2 The Violin, Camera, and Canoe -- Diary of Exploration of Lake Nipigon Region, Northern Ontario, 7 September - 5 October 1906 -- 3 From Bryn Mawr to Lake Nipigon -- Diary of the First Mackenzie Expedition, 5 August 1910 - 14 March 1911 -- 4 Through Canada's Northland -- Diary of the Second Mackenzie Expedition, 6 June 1911 - 8 August 1912 -- 5 Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society -- Diary of the Third Mackenzie Expedition, 15 June 1913 - 3 October 1914 -- 6 Frances and the Book of the Heart -- Diary of Frances Hubbard Flaherty, 17 December 1914 - 22 February 1916 -- 7 Flaherty Island -- Diary of the Fourth Mackenzie Expedition, 11 August 1915 - 21 September 1916 -- 8 Nanook of the Barren Lands -- The Port Harrison Diary, August 1920 - August 1921 -- 9 Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.
Summary: Robert Flaherty's groundbreaking Nanook of the North (1922) was the first full-length anthropological documentary in cinematic history. Drawing from the unpublished diaries of Flaherty and his wife, Frances, Robert Christopher's biography fills in crucial background in the emergence of a documentary film legend.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations and Maps -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Boy from Iron Mountain -- The Islands That Were Not There," 1884-1904 -- 2 The Violin, Camera, and Canoe -- Diary of Exploration of Lake Nipigon Region, Northern Ontario, 7 September - 5 October 1906 -- 3 From Bryn Mawr to Lake Nipigon -- Diary of the First Mackenzie Expedition, 5 August 1910 - 14 March 1911 -- 4 Through Canada's Northland -- Diary of the Second Mackenzie Expedition, 6 June 1911 - 8 August 1912 -- 5 Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society -- Diary of the Third Mackenzie Expedition, 15 June 1913 - 3 October 1914 -- 6 Frances and the Book of the Heart -- Diary of Frances Hubbard Flaherty, 17 December 1914 - 22 February 1916 -- 7 Flaherty Island -- Diary of the Fourth Mackenzie Expedition, 11 August 1915 - 21 September 1916 -- 8 Nanook of the Barren Lands -- The Port Harrison Diary, August 1920 - August 1921 -- 9 Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

Robert Flaherty's groundbreaking Nanook of the North (1922) was the first full-length anthropological documentary in cinematic history. Drawing from the unpublished diaries of Flaherty and his wife, Frances, Robert Christopher's biography fills in crucial background in the emergence of a documentary film legend.

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