Film Studies 2258F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nell Shipman, Dog Sled, Japanese Canadians
21 Jan 2018
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Nations are imagined communities and don"t exist organically. Nations are constructed by ideas and can shift over time. Shipman was one of the first women to do a nude scene on screen in the movie. Summary: the film tells the story of dolores lebeau (nell shipman) who lives in the canadian woods with her father and who has a rapport with the wild animals of the forest. Canadian government official and writer, and marries him after escaping from rydal, the villain who, disguised as a mountie, tries to rape her and then kills her father. Arctic on a whaling schooner whose captain turns out to be rydal, still intent on possessing her. She manages to foil him until the ship becomes frozen in, then escapes on a dog-sled with her husband. Rydal and his partner pursue her but the dog wapi, ill-treated by rydal"s partner and befriended by. Dolores, assists her by attacking and crippling the dogs of rydal"s sled.
