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Documentary Filmmaking as Colonialist Propaganda and Cinefeminist Intervention: Mai Zettterling's Of Seals and Men (1979)
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Health and Society (HS), Department of Social Work (SA).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7696-2095
2015 (English)In: Film History. An International Journal, ISSN 0892-2160, E-ISSN 1553-3905, Vol. 27, no 4, p. 106-129Article in journal (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This essay focuses on UK-based Swedish filmmaker Mai Zetterling's made-for-television documentary Of Seals and Men (1979). Zetterling is known internationally as an art-film auteur, and this examination seeks to broaden her stature in the context of the UK and Europe-based cinefeminsim movements of the 1970s. The authors argue that Of Seals and Men constitutes a significant and overlooked artifact in the history of colonial Greenlandic-Danish relations, as it focuses on the controversy of the Green-landic seal hunt and was financed as a propaganda vehicle by the Danish government and the Greenland Trade Department. The article draws on extensive archival research and references Zetterling's production notebooks and correspondence as well as official communication by the Royal Greenland Trade Department.

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Indiana University Press, 2015. Vol. 27, no 4, p. 106-129
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Mai Zetterling, women directors, Greenland, Denmark, Arctic, polar film, Wally Herbert
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Humanities and the Arts
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-15184DOI: 10.2979/filmhistory.27.4.106ISI: 000372578800004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84958550396Local ID: 27383OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-15184DiVA, id: diva2:1418705
Available from: 2020-03-30 Created: 2020-03-30 Last updated: 2024-08-28Bibliographically approved

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