“Who We Are Now”: Iñupiaq Youth <i>On the Ice</i>

This essay considers Andrew Okpeaha MacLean’s 2011 feature film On the Ice, about Iñupiaq youth in Barrow, Alaska, in the context of Arctic and Indigenous cinemas and the American western. Reading the film through Inuit and Iñupiaq concepts and engaging with the film’s depictions of cultural syncre...

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Main Author: Joanna Hearne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Libraries 2017-12-01
Series:MediaTropes
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Online Access:http://www.mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/29164