Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
Author:   Peter Geller
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Edition:   illustrated edition
ISBN:  

9780774809276


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 September 2004
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Peter Geller
Publisher:   University of British Columbia Press
Imprint:   University of British Columbia Press
Edition:   illustrated edition
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780774809276


ISBN 10:   0774809272
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   01 September 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Illustrations Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments 1 Taking Pictures and Making History: Photographic Representation and the Canadian North 2 More Than A Mass of Ice and Snow : Visualizing the State in Canada's Arctic 3 Pictures of the Arctic Night : Archibald Lang Fleming and Missionary Messages of the North 4 The Business of Representing the North: Filmmakers, Photographers, and the Fur Traders of the Hudson's Bay Company 5 From Back to Baffin to Canada Moves North: Richard Finnie's Northern Visions 6 Re-Making It Into Here : Representation and Power in Northern Imagery Notes Bibliography Filmography Index

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In many ways, Geller's Northern Exposures is ground-breaking. It is the first book to describe and document, with many superb illustrations, some of the extensive camera work done in the Canadian North; it is also the first book ... to provide a critique of certain key institutions and individuals whose images have constructed and conditioned southern Canadians' perceptions of the North. But I want to begin with one aspect of this book that deserves special praise - the illustrations ... readers owe Geller and UBC Press much thanks ... each image is nicely subtitled and perfectly placed ... Geller concludes this study with an excellent bibliography. Bravo! -- Sherrill Grace, University of British Columbia Canadian Historical Review, vol. 87, no.1


Northern Exposures makes a very significant contribution to the field. Its important subject - how southern attitudes towards the North have been manipulated - has not been previously tackled, and Geller's scholarship is very sound indeed. - William Barr, Arctic Institute of North America


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Peter Geller is a historian and vice-provost at the University of the Fraser Valley.

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