Robert J. Flaherty: A Biography

by Paul Rotha and Jay Ruby

Producer of Nanook of the North, Moana, Man of Aran, and other pioneering documentaries between 1920 and 1940, Robert J. Flaherty was America's first independent film artist. Popular conceptions of Flaherty have led many either to worship his work and regard him in mythical terms or to debunk him as a fraud and castigate him for lack of a social consciousness. Rarely has the attempt been made to understand him in the context...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812278879
• ISBN13: 9780812278873
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"