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Anderson, Jason. "Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner." Eye Weekly 11 April 2002.

Angilirq, Paul Apak, et al. Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner: Inspired by a Traditional Inuit Legend of Igloolik. Toronto: Coach House Books & Isuma Publishing, 2002.

Ansen, David. "The Ice Capade." Newsweek 24 June 2002: 16.

Arnold, Gary. "'Runner' a Wilderness Escape." Washington Times 22 June 2002: D5.

Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner http://www.isuma.tv/atanarjuat

Atanarjuat -- The Trailer http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi3887530265/

Atwood, Margaret. "Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner." Globe and Mail 10 April 2002: R10.

Auger, Emily E. The Way of Inuit Art: Aesthetics and History in and beyond the Arctic. Jefferson: McFarland, 2005.

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Bessire, Lucas. "Talking Back to Primitivism: Divided Audiences, Collective Desires." American Anthropologist 105.4 (2003): 832-38.

Billson, Janet Mancini. Inuit Women: Their Powerful Spirit in a Century of Change. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

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Brown, DeNeen L. "The Direction of True North; For His Film of an Inuit Parable, Zacharias Kunuk Stayed Close to Home." Washington Post 1 August 2002: C01.

Brown, DeNeen L. "The Direction of True North; For His Film of an Inuit Parable, Zacharias Kunuk Stayed Close to Home." Washington Post 1 August 2002: C01.

Byrnes, Paul. "Inuit Take Over the Running." Sydney Morning Herald 22 August 2002: 14.

Camhi, Leslie. "For Your Ice Only." Village Voice 12 June 2001: 152.

"Canadian Film 'The Fast Runner' Details Inuit Life." National Public Radio (NPR) 4 July 2002.

Chun, Kimberly . "Storytelling in the Arctic Circle: An Interview with Zacharias Kunuk." Cineaste 28.1 (2002): 21-23.

Cohn, Norman. "The Art of Community-Based Filmmaking." Brick 70 (2002): 21-23.

Corliss, Richard. "The Ice Storm Cometh." Time 8 July 2002: 86.

Crosbie, Tom. "Critical Historiography in Atanarjuat The Fast Runner and Ten Canoes." Journal of New Zealand Literature 24.2 (2007): 135-54.

Curiel, Jonathan. "'The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)' swept awards in Canada and France." San Francisco Chronicle 23 June 2002.

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Dawson, Tom. "Atanarjuat -- The Fast Runner." British Broadcasting Corporation 22 January 2002. http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/01/22/atanarjuat_review_2002_review.shtml

DeLillo, Don. "Counterpoint: Three Movies, a Book, and an Old Photograph." Brick 74 (2004): 96-105.

Dowell, Kristin. "Indigenous Media Gone Global: Strengthening Indigenous Identity On- and Offscreen at First Nations/First Features Film Showcase." American Anthropologist 108.2 (2006): 376-84.

Ebert, Roger. "Review of The Fast Runner." Chicago Sun-Times 28 June 2002: 35. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020628/REVIEWS/206280303/1023

Evans, Michael Robert. "Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner." Isuma: Inuit Video Art. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. 76-100.

Evans, Michael Robert. The Fast Runner: Filming the Legend of Atanarjuat. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2010.

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Fuller, Graham. "Shots in the Dark." Interview June 2002: 45.

Gauthier, Jennifer L. "Speaking Back with Similar Voices: The Dialogic Cinema of Zacharias Kunuk and Pierre Perrault." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 27.2 (2010): 108-20.

Geiger, Jeffrey, and R. L. Rutsky. "Nanook of the North: Fiction, Truth, and the Documentary Contract." Film Analysis: A Norton Reader. New York: Norton, 2005.

Gillespie, Eleanor Ringle. "At the Movies: Mythic 'Runner' Exerts Primal Pull." Atlanta Journal-Constitution 19 July 2002.

Ginsburg, Faye. "Atanarjuat Off-Screen: From 'Media Reservations' to the World Stage." American Anthropologist 105.4 (2003): 827-31.

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Gregoire, Lisa. "The Filmmaker." Canadian Geographic 1 March 2007: 26.

Gunderson, Sonia. "Zacharias Kunuk: Running Fast to Preserve Inuit Culture." Inuit Art Quarterly 19.3-4 (2004): 48-52.

Hearne, Joanna. "Telling and Retelling in the 'Ink of Light': Documentary Cinema, Oral Narratives and Indigenous Identities." Screen 47.3 (2006): 307-26.

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Hilden, Patricia Penn. "From an Inuit Zone: Atanarjuat." From a Red Zone: Critical Perspectives on Race, Politics, and Culture. Trenton: Red Sea Press, 2006. 5-9.

Hoberman, J. "Let There Be Light." Village Voice 11 June 2002: 145.

Hoberman, Jim. "Lux et Veritas." Village Voice 19 March 2002. http://www.villagevoice.com/2002-03-19/film/lux-et-veritas/1

Howe, Desson. "'Fast Runner' a Stunner." Washington Post 21 June 2002: T44.

Huhndorf, Shari M. "'From the Inside and Through Inuit Eyes': Igloolik Isuma Productions and the Cultural Politics of Inuit Media." Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2009. 71-104.

Huhndorf, Shari M. "Nanook and His Contemporaries: Imagining Eskimos in American Culture, 1897-1922." Critical Inquiry 27.1 (2000): 122-48.

Huhndorf, Shari. "Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner: Culture, History, and Politics in Inuit Media." American Anthropologist 105.4 (2003): 822-26.

Hussain, Amir. "The Fast Runner." Journal of Religion and Film 6.2 (2002). http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/antan.htm

Interview with Paul Apak Angilirq http://www.isuma.tv/hi/en/atanarjuat/interviews

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Johnson, Brian. "An Arctic Masterpiece." Maclean's 15 April 2002: 53.

Kauffmann, Stanley. "Truth and Inconsequences." New Republic 24 June 2002: 26.

Kaufman, Debra. "A Collective Effort: Inuit Legends Inspire Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner." American Cinematographer 82.12 (2001): 80-87.

King, Loren. "'Runner' Captures Epic Sweep of Inuit Life." Boston Globe 21 June 2002.

Knopf, Kerstin. "Atanarjuat: Fast Running and Electronic Storytelling in the Arctic." Transcultural English Studies: Theories, Fictions, Realities. Ed. Frank Schulze-Engler et. al. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. 201-20.

Kolodny, Annette. "Tropic Trappings in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto and Joseph Nicobar's The Life and Traditions of the Red Man." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 32.1 (2008): 21-34.

Krewani, Angela. "'Through the Camera Lens': Cultural Practice as Media Image." Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien 28.1 (2008): 108-18.

Krupat, Arnold. "Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner and Its Audiences." Critical Inquiry 33.3 (2007): 606-31.

Krupat, Arnold. All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2009.

Kulchyski, Peter. "Violence, Gender, and Community in Atanarjuat." Film, History and Cultural Citizenship: Sites of Production. Ed. Tina Mai Chen and David S. Churchill. New York: Routledge, 2007. 131-42.

Kunuk, Zacharias, "The Public Art of Storytelling." http://www.com.umontreal.ca/spry/old/spry-kz-lec.html

Kunuk, Zacharias. "I first heard the story of Atanarjuat from my mother." Brick 70 (2002): 17-19.

Lyons, Scott Richard. "Rhetorical Sovereignty: What Do American Indians Want from Writing?" College Composition and Communication 51.3 (2000): 447-68.

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McCall, Sophie. "'I Can Only Sing This Song to Someone Who Understands It': Community Filmmaking and the Politics of Partial Translation in Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner." Essays on Canadian Writing 83 (2004): 19-46.

McDermott, James. The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578. London: Hakluyt Society, 2001.

McSweeney, Terence. "Apocalypto Now: A New Millennial Pax Americana in Crisis?" Media and the Apocalypse. Ed. Kylo-Patrick R. Hart and Annette Holba. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. 167-85.

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Ryan, Tom. "Film of the week -- Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner." Sunday Age (Melbourne) 25 August 2002: 10.

Sadashige, Jacqui. "Atanarjuat the Fast Runner." American Historical Review 107.3 (2002): 989-90.

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