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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These film-makers then, are apprehending and shooting the nation through a colonizing gaze, hegemonic and controlling way of looking at the world that is, as E. Ann Kaplan explains, 'determined by history, tradition power hierarchies, politics, economics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
materialized enjoyment, intertitle reading, bons débarras, ethnographic cinema, multicultural fields, contested nation, male phantasy, aboriginal other, fictive ethnicity, colonizing gaze, corrupt social order, official multiculturalism, national thing, cinematic sign, national cinema, film policy, family melodrama, universal signifier, white nation, film narrative, comprador class, repressive state apparatuses, colonial gaze, colonial stereotypes, cinematic apparatus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Nations, Black Robe, United States, Japanese Canadians, God's Country, Saving the Sagas, Saddle River, War Measures Act, Srinivas Krishna, Lao Tse, New Denver, Prime Minister, October Crisis, British Columbia, Down the Road, Hot Ice, Central Canadian, Imperial Subject, Margaret's Museum, National Film Board of Canada, North America, American Other, Cape Breton, Chinese Other, Québec City New!
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These film-makers then, are apprehending and shooting the nation through a colonizing gaze, hegemonic and controlling way of looking at the world that is, as E. Ann Kaplan explains, 'determined by history, tradition power hierarchies, politics, economics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
materialized enjoyment, intertitle reading, bons débarras, ethnographic cinema, multicultural fields, contested nation, male phantasy, aboriginal other, fictive ethnicity, colonizing gaze, corrupt social order, official multiculturalism, national thing, cinematic sign, national cinema, film policy, family melodrama, universal signifier, white nation, film narrative, comprador class, repressive state apparatuses, colonial gaze, colonial stereotypes, cinematic apparatus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Nations, Black Robe, United States, Japanese Canadians, God's Country, Saving the Sagas, Saddle River, War Measures Act, Srinivas Krishna, Lao Tse, New Denver, Prime Minister, October Crisis, British Columbia, Down the Road, Hot Ice, Central Canadian, Imperial Subject, Margaret's Museum, National Film Board of Canada, North America, American Other, Cape Breton, Chinese Other, Québec City New!
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- Feminist Film Theory: A Reader by Sue Thornham in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Film Genre Reader by Andrew Tudor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cinema Book by Pam Cook in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Canadian Film (Perspectives on Canadian Culture) by David Clandfield in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- People of the Pines by Geoffrey York 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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