TY - BOOK ID - 77884635 TI - Robert and Frances Flaherty AU - Christopher, Robert J AU - Flaherty, Frances Hubbard AU - Flaherty, Robert Joseph PY - 2005 SN - 1282863436 9786612863431 0773572775 9780773572775 0773528768 9780773528765 9781282863439 6612863439 PB - Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - Inuit KW - Directors, Motion picture KW - Film directors KW - Film producers KW - Filmmakers KW - Motion picture directors KW - Moviemakers KW - Moving-picture producers and directors KW - Producers, Motion picture KW - Persons KW - Innuit KW - Inupik KW - Eskimos KW - In motion pictures. KW - Flaherty, Robert J., KW - Flaherty, Frances Hubbard. KW - Flaherty, Frances Hubbard KW - Hubbard, Frances Johnson, KW - Canada, Northern KW - Arctic, Canadian KW - Canadian Arctic KW - Northern Canada KW - Arctic regions KW - Inuit in motion pictures. KW - Flaherty, Robert Joseph, KW - Motion pictures KW - Flaherty, Bob, KW - Flaherty, Robert J. KW - Flaėrti, Robert, KW - Флаэрти, Роберт, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77884635 AB - Robert Flaherty's groundbreaking Nanook of the North (1922) - the chronicle of one year in the life of an Inuit hunter and his family in the Hudson Bay region - was the first full-length anthropological documentary in cinematic history. Before Nanook, Flaherty endured a number of failures, disappointments, and false starts. Drawing from the unpublished diaries of Flaherty and his wife, Frances, Robert Christopher's biography fills in crucial background in the emergence of a documentary film legend.Previous biographical emphasis on Nanook has not only obscured Flaherty's early career but also 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.From iron prospector to photographer to filmmaker, Flaherty's early life is situated in the context of his explorations of the Canadian north and its peoples, the development of modern cinema, the rise of modernism, and his association with significant figures such as Alfred Adler, Franz Boas, Edward Curtis, and Alfred Steiglitz. ER -