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035 _a(DE-B1597)463603
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082 0 4 _a791.43/0233/0924
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRotha, Paul
_eautore
245 1 0 _aRobert J. Flaherty :
_bA Biography /
_cPaul Rotha; ed. by Jay Ruby.
250 _aReprint 2016
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©1984
300 _a1 online resource (448 p.) :
_b52 illus.
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tPortrait by Oliver St. John Gogarty (1948) --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tSome Flaherty Sayings --
_tChapter 1. The North and Nanook --
_tChapter 2. Moana and the Pacific --
_tChapter 3. Europe, England, and the Atlantic --
_tChapter 4. India and the Elephants --
_tChapter 5. United States and The Land --
_tChapter 6. Louisiana Story --
_tChapter 7. Man and Artist --
_tAfterword --
_tAppendix I. The Films of Robert J. Flaherty --
_tAppendix II. Some Flaherty Stories --
_tAppendix III. On the Record --
_tAppendix IV. Notes by John Goldman --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aProducer of Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Aran, and other pioneering documentaries between 1920 and 1940, Robert J. Flaherty was America's first independent film artist. Popular conceptions of Flaherty have led many either to worship his work and regard him in mythical terms or to debunk him as a fraud and castigate him for lack of a social consciousness. Rarely has the attempt been made to understand him in the context of his times. This captivating study presents Flaherty through the eyes of someone who knew him personally—the brilliant British filmmaker and scholar Paul Rotha. A colleague and close friend of Flaherty, Rotha gives us s a powerfully written biography that is a balanced and intimate look at the life and work of an American genius.Editor Jay Ruby has restored the Rotha biography, including a wealth of anecdotes, letters, and memoirs that begin to bring Robert Flaherty the man into focus. An especially valuable dimension of this work is the appraisal of Flaherty the filmmaker from the viewpoint of a major figure of the British industry. He summarizes in detail the critical response to Flaherty of his contemporaries, about which only sketchy information has previously been available.Flaherty regarded himself as an explorer as well as a filmmaker. The exciting story of this biography takes us from the Arctic, where Flaherty spent years filming Nanook, to the South Pacific, England, the Aran Islands, and finally the United States. his courage and overarching vision resulted in an unprecedented recording of the human struggle and in documentary films that reached a wider audience than ever before.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aMotion picture producers and directors
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aMotion picture producers and directors
_zUnited States
_xBiography.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers.
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653 _aAutobiography.
653 _aBiography.
653 _aFilm Studies.
653 _aMedia Studies.
700 1 _aRuby, Jay
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aRötha, Paul
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9781512818512
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