Canadian National Cinema explores the idea of the nation across Canada's film history, from early films of colonisation and white settlement such as The Wheatfields of Canada and Back to God's Country, to recent films like Nô, LE Confessional Mon Oncle Antoine, Grey Fox, Highway 61, Kanehsatake, and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing.
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The addition of of this title to the growing list in the series is most welcome.
–Bruce A. Austin, Communications Booknotes Quarterly
Through close textual readings, Gittings' valuable study examines the ways in which Canadian films reflect and refract social forces of their times and address contemporary issues of representation and nation.
–Blain Allan, Queen's University
...presents a fresh and uncompromising angle on Canadian cultural history while it traces the social implications of its stories on film. What emerges is a close and sympathetic analysis which focuses on the difficulties facing a national industry dominated by its powerful neighbour, the politics of representation internal to a multi-ethnic and multi-racial society, and the positive effects of strategic investment in local stories as well as the indigenisation of international genres.
–Graeme Turner, University of Queensland
–Bruce A. Austin, Communications Booknotes Quarterly
Through close textual readings, Gittings' valuable study examines the ways in which Canadian films reflect and refract social forces of their times and address contemporary issues of representation and nation.
–Blain Allan, Queen's University
...presents a fresh and uncompromising angle on Canadian cultural history while it traces the social implications of its stories on film. What emerges is a close and sympathetic analysis which focuses on the difficulties facing a national industry dominated by its powerful neighbour, the politics of representation internal to a multi-ethnic and multi-racial society, and the positive effects of strategic investment in local stories as well as the indigenisation of international genres.
–Graeme Turner, University of Queensland
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Sean Brierley has taught and written about advertising and marketing for seven years as a journalist and as a lecturer at Liverpool John Moore's University. He is currently Associate Editor of Marketing Week.
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Reflecting the thinking of the critics cited above and my own research into Canadian cinematic production, the title of my Introduction marks the fractured, shifting, discontinuous and variegated field of Canadian cinemas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
idealized signifiers, monstrous ethnographic, materialized enjoyment, intertitle reading, indigenous nationhood, ethnographic cinema, contested nation, aboriginal other, multicultural fields, colonizing gaze, male phantasy, fictive ethnicity, corrupt social order, national thing, official multiculturalism, national cinema, film policy, universal signifier, white nation, repressive state apparatuses, film narrative, comprador class, colonial gaze, family melodrama, colonial stereotypes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Nations, Black Robe, Japanese Canadians, United States, Cowboy Kid, God's Country, Saddle River, Saving the Sagas, War Measures Act, Srinivas Krishna, Prime Minister, Lao Tse, New Denver, October Crisis, British Columbia, Central Canadian, Hot Ice, National Film Board of Canada, Imperial Subject, North America, American Other, Down the Road, Margaret's Museum, Chinese Other, Claude Jutra New!
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Reflecting the thinking of the critics cited above and my own research into Canadian cinematic production, the title of my Introduction marks the fractured, shifting, discontinuous and variegated field of Canadian cinemas. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
idealized signifiers, monstrous ethnographic, materialized enjoyment, intertitle reading, indigenous nationhood, ethnographic cinema, contested nation, aboriginal other, multicultural fields, colonizing gaze, male phantasy, fictive ethnicity, corrupt social order, national thing, official multiculturalism, national cinema, film policy, universal signifier, white nation, repressive state apparatuses, film narrative, comprador class, colonial gaze, family melodrama, colonial stereotypes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Nations, Black Robe, Japanese Canadians, United States, Cowboy Kid, God's Country, Saddle River, Saving the Sagas, War Measures Act, Srinivas Krishna, Prime Minister, Lao Tse, New Denver, October Crisis, British Columbia, Central Canadian, Hot Ice, National Film Board of Canada, Imperial Subject, North America, American Other, Down the Road, Margaret's Museum, Chinese Other, Claude Jutra New!
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- The Road Movie Book by Steven Cohan on page 149, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Feminist Film Theory: A Reader by Sue Thornham in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The October crisis by Gerard Pelletier on page 186, and Back Matter
- Canadian National Cinema (National Cinemas) by Christopher E. Gittings in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Film Genre Reader by Andrew Tudor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema by George Melnyk on 10 pages
- Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema by Malek Khouri on 6 pages
- Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature into Film by Peter Dickinson on 5 pages
- Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker (American Indian Lives) by Randolph Lewis on 4 pages
- Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice by Roy Miki in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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