This is the first book to comprehensively examine the development of English-Canadian cinema since 1980; previous books in English have dealt either with specific films or filmmakers, with policy, or with specific genres (avant-garde film, documentary, films by women, etc.). It deals with regional and institutional questions, with the new authors that are defining contemporary cinema in English Canada, with avant-garde work and work by Aboriginal people. Bringing together a wide variety of contributors, the book deals with an enormous amount of cinema that has helped transform North American culture of the last two decades.
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William Beard is Professor of Film/Media Studies at the University of Alberta. He is author of Persistence of Double Vision: Essays on Clint Eastwood and The Artist As Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg.
Jerry White is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta.
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To speak frankly as a US citizen with an interest in Film Studies, I never quite know what the heck is going on in Canadian cinema, nor where I should be looking. So this book fills a serious void for me, and has a diversity of entries, some more academic than others (but almost all good), that offer lucid and interesting introductions to the wealth of visual culture being produced in Canada over the past decades. I really like the essays on Native filmmakers Loretta Todd and Alanis Obomsawin, and think the editors did a great job of casting their net widely.I highly recommend this book, though I wish it were cheaper.
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aboriginal filmmakers, transnational filmmaker, dian film, video researchers, viewing formations, women filmmakers, independent animators, secret nation, film institutions, animation festival, documentary idea, red violin, experimental cinema, animation stand, national cinema, film policy, local filmmakers, black popular culture, sad young man, genre cinema, indigenous media, experimental film, animation industry, black cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Film Board, New York, Cineplex Odeon, Studio One, Glenn Gould, Mike Hoolboom, United States, North America, Far From Home, First Nations, Boni Black, The Grey Fox, Big Bear, Loretta Todd, Atom Egoyan, Dead Ringers, Deepa Mehta, Last Night, Cameron Bailey, Naive Outpourings, Nova Scotia, Telefilm Canada, Bill Miner, Lisa Steele, Sesame Street New!
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aboriginal filmmakers, transnational filmmaker, dian film, video researchers, viewing formations, women filmmakers, independent animators, secret nation, film institutions, animation festival, documentary idea, red violin, experimental cinema, animation stand, national cinema, film policy, local filmmakers, black popular culture, sad young man, genre cinema, indigenous media, experimental film, animation industry, black cinema Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Film Board, New York, Cineplex Odeon, Studio One, Glenn Gould, Mike Hoolboom, United States, North America, Far From Home, First Nations, Boni Black, The Grey Fox, Big Bear, Loretta Todd, Atom Egoyan, Dead Ringers, Deepa Mehta, Last Night, Cameron Bailey, Naive Outpourings, Nova Scotia, Telefilm Canada, Bill Miner, Lisa Steele, Sesame Street New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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