University of British Columbia Press
Northern Exposures
Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
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Northern Exposures
Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
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.
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