{"product_id":"robert-and-frances-flaherty-robert-j-christopher-9780773528765","title":"Robert and Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life, 1883-1922","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Flaherty's groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eNanook of the North\u003c\/i\u003e (1922) - the chronicle of one year in the life of an Inuit hunter and his family in the Hudson Bay region - was the first full-length anthropological documentary in cinematic history. Before \u003ci\u003eNanook\u003c\/i\u003e, Flaherty endured a number of failures, disappointments, and false starts. Drawing from the unpublished diaries of Flaherty and his wife, Frances, Robert Christopher's biography fills in crucial background in the emergence of a documentary film legend. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrevious biographical emphasis on \u003ci\u003eNanook\u003c\/i\u003e has not only obscured Flaherty's early career but also neglected the critical contributions Frances made to his development as an artist. \u003ci\u003eRobert and Frances Flaherty\u003c\/i\u003e charts her transformation from a Bryn Mawr bluestocking to the partner of a frontier explorer and offers her unique perspective as his collaborator and publicist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom iron prospector to photographer to filmmaker, Flaherty's early life is situated in the context of his explorations of the Canadian north and its peoples, the development of modern cinema, the rise of modernism, and his association with significant figures such as Alfred Adler, Franz Boas, Edward Curtis, and Alfred Steiglitz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert J. Christopher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0773528768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780773528765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/23\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.50w x 1.40d","brand":"Robert J. Christopher","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096713306367,"sku":"9780773528765","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robert-and-frances-flaherty-robert-j-christopher-9780773528765","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}