Qallunaat.
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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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Originally produced by National Film Board of Canada in 2007.
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What's so funny about white people, otherwise known as Qallunaat to the Inuit? Well, among other curious behaviours, Qallunaat ritualistically greet each other with inane salutations, repress natural bodily functions, complain a lot about being cold and seem to want to dominate the world. This docucomedy is a collaboration between filmmaker Mark Sandiford and Inuit writer and satirist Zebedee Nungak. Zebedee is CEO and head researcher of the mythical Qallunaat Studies Institute (QSI). According to Nungak, "Qallunaat ought to be the object of some kind of study by other cultures. The more I thought about the way they have studied us over the years it occurred to me, why don't we study them?" In its use of archival clips, Why White People Are Funny pokes as much fun at the illustrious history of NFB documentaries as it does at society in the south. Of course, well before the NFB came into existence, and at least as early as the classic 1922 feature "Nanook of the North," white society has been fascinated with native subjects, studying them as exotic specimens, documenting their cultural and social behaviours. That tendency to frame a world of Eskimo "others" dominated both film Why White People Are Funny brings the documentary form to an unexpected place. Those who were holding the mirror up to Inuit culture finally have it turned back on themselves. The result is not always pretty, but it sure is amusing. From the Inuit point of view, visitors from the south are nothing less than "accidents waiting to happen." Why White People Are Funny is a humbling portrait of what it must feel like to be the object of the white man's gaze. Fresh and orginal, this documentary has that rare ability to educate with wit.
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Originally produced,aMontreal, Quebec, National Film Board of Canada, c2006.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Sandiford, M., & Nungak, Z. (2014). Qallunaat . Kanopy Streaming.

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Sandiford, Mark and Zebedee, Nungak. 2014. Qallunaat. Kanopy Streaming.

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Sandiford, Mark and Zebedee, Nungak. Qallunaat Kanopy Streaming, 2014.

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