Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45

by Peter Geller

Overview

To many, the North is a familiar but inaccessible place. Yet images of the region are within easy reach, in magazine racks, on our coffee tables, and on television, computer, and movie screens. In Northern Exposures, Peter Geller uncovers the history behind these popular conceptions of the Canadian North.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780774809276
Publisher:	University of British Columbia Press
Publication date:	09/01/2004
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Peter Geller lives and teaches in northern Manitoba and is currently a member of the University College of the North Implementation Team.

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