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Title:

Cannibal tours / O'Rourke and Associates Filmmakers ; Direct Cinema Limited; producer, director Dennis O'Rourke.

Publisher:

O'Rourke & Associates,

Copyright Date:

1990

Description:

1 videocassette (approximately 77 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Papua New Guinea--Description and travel.
Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.
Tourism--Papua New Guinea.
Tourism and art--Papua New Guinea.
Documentary films.

Other Authors:

O'Rourke, Dennis. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89104411
Litchfield, Tim. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004086035
Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79093633
Channel Four (Great Britain) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86808560
O'Rourke & Associates. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96007096
Direct Cinema Ltd. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80100039

Notes:

"Produced in association with The Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies ... [and] Channel 4." Leterboxed. Originally produced as a documentary film in 1987. Filmed on the Sepik River. A foreign film (Australia).

Summary:

This film depicts two journeys. The first is that of a group of wealthy bourgeois German, Italian and American tourists on a luxury cruise up the mysterious Sepik River, in the jungles of Papua New Guinea -- the packaged version of a "heart of darkness." The second journey (the real text of the film) is a metaphysical one. It is an attempt to discover the place of "the Other" in the popular imagination. It affords a glimpse at the real (mostly unconsidered or misunderstood) reasons why "civilized" people wish to encounter the "primitive."

ISBN:

9781559740968
1559740965

OCLC:

(OCoLC)43594549

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)