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1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Cinema Guild in 2019. |
| Summary |
The Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi is seen as a paradise of leisure and pristine natural beauty, but these escapist fantasies obscure the colonial displacement, hyper-exploitation of workers and destructive environmental extraction that have actually shaped life on the island for the last 250 years. CANE FIRE critically examines the island’s history — and the various strategies by which Hollywood has represented it—through four generations of director Anthony Banua-Simon’s family, who first immigrated to Kauaʻi from the Philippines to work on the sugar plantations. Assembled from a diverse array of sources—from Banua-Simon’s observational footage, to amateur YouTube travelogues, to epic Hollywood dance sequences — CANE FIRE offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of the economic and cultural forces that have cast Indigenous and working-class residents as "extras" in their own story. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Language |
In English,Hawaiian |
| Subject |
Travel.
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Indigenous peoples.
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History.
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Americans.
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Sociology.
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Documentary films.
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Social sciences.
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Instructional films.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Banua-Simon, Anthony, film director.
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Cinema Guild (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
14571776 Kanopy |
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