Thanks for this review, Lou -- fantastic timing as we're doing climate change in the Arctic in my Labour and the Environment class next week!
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:13 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > While nothing could surpass “Nanook of the North” in its place in film > history, Joel Heath’s “People of a Feather” that opens at the Quad > Theater in New York on Friday, November 8th is certainly more accurate > on the realities of Inuit life. This is a film that eschews the > exoticism of Flaherty’s film and many like it in the early days of > cinema that amounted to National Geographic on celluloid. You will see > Inuit on snowmobiles and using rifles, if not watching television and > performing their own hip-hop music. But throughout it all, they are the > Inuit who know how to not only survive but also flourish in conditions > that most of humanity would find intolerable. > > full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/08/the-inuit-in-a-melting-world/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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