Table of Contents

Illustrations

Abbreviations

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Taking Pictures and Making History: Photographic Representation and the Canadian North

2 More Than “A Mass of Ice and Snow”: Visualizing the State in “Canada’s Arctic”

3 Pictures of the “Arctic Night”: Archibald Lang Fleming and Missionary Messages of the North

4 The Business of Representing the North: Filmmakers, Photographers, and the Fur Traders of the Hudson’s Bay Company

5 From Back to Baffin to Canada Moves North: Richard Finnie’s Northern Visions

6 “Re-Making It Into Here”: Representation and Power in Northern Imagery

Notes

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Promotional Information

Northern Exposures makes a very significant contribution to the field. Its important subject-how southern attitudes towards the North have been manipulated-has not been previously tackled, and Geller's scholarship is very sound indeed. -- William Barr, Arctic Institute of North America

About the Author

Peter Geller is a historian and vice-provost at the University of the Fraser Valley.

Reviews

"Northern Exposures makes a very significant contribution to the field. Its important subject - how southern attitudes towards the North have been manipulated - has not been previously tackled, and Geller's scholarship is very sound indeed." - William Barr, Arctic Institute of North America"