Critical Writing Index

Intercultural Cinema and the (Re)envisioning of Law: Exploring Life, Death and Law in Atanarjuat and Before Tomorrow

by Rebecca Johnson

Envisioning Legality, 2017

Routledge, 2017

ISSN 9781315648637

This chapter from Envisioning Legality introduces Inuit law and the ways that these laws are portrayed through Inuit cinema, focusing specifically on Zacharias Kunuk's Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner and Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu's Before Tomorrow. Understanding traditional Inuit justice principles changes the interpretations of these films. The author takes time to describe each of the relevant plot points and meaning in Before Tomorrow, demonstrating how this understanding changes interpretation.

ITEM 2017.039 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Atanarjuat: The Fast RunnerZacharias Kunuk

Before TomorrowMarie-Hélène Cousineau

Before TomorrowMadeline Ivalu