Saamowie i ich kultura codzienna w filmie i reportażu z pierwszej połowy XX wieku – rekonstrukcja tożsamości w tekstach kultury
Saami People and Their Everyday Culture in Film and Non-fiction from the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Summary/Abstract: The Saami people are indigenous people and ethnic minorities living in Sápmi, which encompasses the northern areas of Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the Kola Peninsula in Russia. At thebeginning of the twentieth century, interest in Saami began to grow among Swedish researchers,journalists, writers, and film-makers (Jordahl 2014). The aim of this article is to compare the depiction of the attributes of Sami identity as reconstructed in cultural texts from the first half ofthe twentieth century. The main subject of the analysis is the Swedish feature film Midnatts solens son (The Son of the Midnight Sun) directed by Rolf Husberg and Thor L. Brooks from 1939 andthe non-fiction book by the Swedish journalist Ester Blenda Nordström Kåtornas folk (Peopleof the Cots) from 1916.

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