Nanook of the North (1922)
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
Vintage magazines
Mon Ciné 43 1922
Books with substantial mentioning of Nanook of the North
| National Film Theatre Fifty famous films, 1915-1945 [London], [[between 1945 and 1960] |
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| Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000 |
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Robert K. Klepper Silent Films, 1877-1996, A Critical Guide to 646 Movies Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 1999 |
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William Rothman Documentary Film Classics Cambridge, 1997 |
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Stanley Hochman (editor) From Quasimodo to Scarlett O'Hara, A National Board of Review Anthology 1920 - 1940 New York, 1982 |
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Articles on Nanook of the North
| Scott MacKenzie, The Creative Treatment of Alterity: Nanoon as the North, in: Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport (eds.), Films on ice, Edinburgh, 2015 |
| John W. Burton and Caitlin W. Thompson, Nanook and the Kirwinians: Deception, authenticity, and the birth of modern ethnographic representation, in: Film History, vol. 14, 2002 pp. 74-86 |
Articles with substantial mentioning of Nanook of the North
| Charles Warren, Self-Reflection in American Silent Film, in: Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, and Art Simon (ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, Malden, MA, Oxford, Chisester, 2012 |
