Robert J. Flaherty: A Biography
ISBN: 9781512818512
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Flaherty Robert Joseph 1884–1951; Moving-picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography;

Traces the life of the American explorer and documentary filmmaker, and describes the difficulties he faced in creating each of his films.


Paul Rotha (1907-1984) was a distinguished British filmmaker and author of several books, including Film Til Now and Documentary Diary. Jay Ruby is Professor of Anthropology and director of a graduate program in the anthropology of visual communication at Temple University. He is the editor of A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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