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Monthly Archives: January 2014

Nanook: Flaherty’s “social actor”

  Despite its issues gaining a company for distribution, “Nanook of the North” was received with great reviews from both critics and fans. Previously many of the documentaries being made were either “fakery” or exploited as a creative outlet to give “western audiences a reassuring feeling about” imperialism on native populations (Barrow 24). Flaherty’s objective […]

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