May 19, 2008
Assistant professor Michael Evans’ new book, Isuma: Inuit Video Art, explores social, political and cultural facets of Isuma, the Inuit video organization that created The Fast Runner. The Fast Runner won the Camera d’Or Award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and a host of other honors.Isuma stems from nine months of ethnographic fieldwork Evans conducted in Igloolik, a small Inuit village north of mainland Canada. Publication of the book was supported by grants from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the International Council for Canadian Studies, and the research was supported by a Fulbright Fellowship. The book was published by McGill-Queens University Press in Montreal.
