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Author : David Lawrence Pike
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442612402
Making a significant advance in the study of the film industry of the period, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s is also an ideal text for students, researchers, and Canadian film enthusiasts.
Author : William Beard,Jerry White
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 088864390X
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.
Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442698321
Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a lively, personal, and accessible history of the most influential filmmakers and movements of both Anglo-Canadian and Quebecois cinema, from popular movies to art film and everything in between. Along with in-depth studies of key directors, including David Cronenberg, Patricia Rozema and Denys Arcand, Jean-Claude Lauzon, Robert Lepage, Léa Pool, Atom Egoyan, and Guy Maddin, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s reflects on major themes and genres and explores the regional and cultural diversity of the period. Pike positions Canadian filmmaking at the frontlines of a profound cinematic transformation in the age of global media and presents fresh perspectives on both its local and international contexts. Making a significant advance in the study of the film industry of the period, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s is also an ideal text for students, researchers, and Canadian film enthusiasts.
Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764606
Containing 24 essays, each on a different film, this work provides a fascinating historical account of the development of film and documentary traditions across the diverse national and regional communities in Canada.
Author : Manjunath Pendakur
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814319998
A history of the Canadian film industry from its inception to 1980s, providing a chronological record of the conflicting priorities between American capital, which seeks to shape the Canadian film industry to its own image, and Canada's stated goal, which is to serve the Canadian people with films autonomously conceived, produced, and exhibited.
Author : Chris Gittings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134764853
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.
Author : Lee Carruthers,Charles Tepperman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780228014928
At the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformation. Domestic filmmaking has since declined in visibility: the sense of celebrity once associated with independent directors has diminished, projects garner less critical attention, and concepts that made late-twentieth-century Canadian film legible have been reconsidered or displaced. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium examines this dramatic transformation and revitalizes our engagement with Canadian cinema in the contemporary moment, presenting focused case studies of films and filmmakers and contextual studies of Canadian film policy, labour, and film festivals. Contributors trace key developments since 2000, including the renouveau or Quebec New Wave, Indigenous filmmaking, i-docs, and diasporic experimental filmmaking. Reflecting the way film in Canada mediates multiple cultures, forging new affinities among anglophone, francophone, and Indigenous-language examples, this book engages familiar figures, such as Denis Villeneuve, Xavier Dolan, Sarah Polley, and Guy Maddin, in the same breath as small-budget independent films, documentaries, and experimental works that have emerged in the Canadian scene. Fuelled by close attention to the films themselves and a desire to develop new scholarly approaches, Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium models a renewed commitment to keeping the conversation about Canadian cinema vibrant and alive.
Author : Janine Marchessault,Will Straw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190933159
The chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema present a rich, diverse overview of Canadian cinema. Responding to the latest developments in Canadian film studies, this volume takes into account the variety of artistic voices, media technologies, and places which have marked cinema in Canada throughout its history. Drawing on a range of established and emerging scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume will be useful to teachers, scholars, and to a general readership interested in cinema in Canada. Moving beyond the director-focused approach of much previous scholarship, this book is concerned with communities, institutions, and audiences for Canadian cinema at both national and international levels. The choice of subjects covered ranges from popular, genre cinema to the most experimental of artistic interventions. Canadian cinema is seen in its interaction with other forms of art-making and media production in Canada and at the international level. Particular attention has been paid to the work of Indigenous filmmakers, members of diasporic communities and feminist and LGBTQ artists. The result is a book attentive to the complex social and institutional contexts in which Canadian cinema is made and consumed.
Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781927356593
Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls “the nationalist-realist project,” a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of Anglo-centrism has been challenged by francophone and First Nations perspectives and the character of cities altered by a continued influx of immigrants and the development of cities as economic and technological centers. No longer primarily defined through the lens of rural nostalgia, Canadian urban identity is instead polyphonic, diverse, constructed through multiple discourses and mediums, an exchange rather than a strict orientation. Taking on the urban as setting and subject, filmmakers are ideally poised to create and reflect multiple versions of a single city. Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Léolo (1992), Mina Shum’s Double Happiness (1994), Clément Virgo’s Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and “urbanity”—the totality of urban culture and life. Drawing on film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation in Canadian studies, Melnyk considers how filmmakers, films, and urban audiences experience, represent, and interpret urban spatiality, visuality, and orality. In this way, Film and the City argues that Canadian narrative film of the postmodern period has aided in articulating a new national identity.
Author : Kass Banting,Brenda Longfellow
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0802079644
The definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film making in Canada.
Author : André Loiselle
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123333549
With a career spanning more than five decades, director and cinematographer Michel Brault is one of the most influential figures in Québécois cinema. Cinema as History: Michel Brault and Modern Quebec is André Loiselle’s study of his life and his work. Brault’s early works, including Les Raquetteurs (co-directed with Gilles Groulx) and Pour la Suite du Monde (co-directed with Pierre Perrault) reflected a hitherto unacknowledged and unfulfilled need on the part of Québécois society to see their own culture reflected onscreen—and helped spark a cultural renaissance in Quebec. His 1974 fiction feature Les Ordres, which deals with the FLQ crisis and the invocation of the War Measures Act by then prime minister Pierre Trudeau, has consistently been listed as one of the best Québécois and Canadian films. Brault’s work as cinematographer has been equally essential, with groundbreaking films like Claude Jutra’s Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) and Francis Mankiewicz’s Les Bons Débarras (1980). He was a key contributor to the development of the cinema-verité movement, serving as cinematographer on French director Jean Rouch’s legendary Chronique dun Été (1961). André Loiselle’s study of Brault’s work and career moves beyond traditional auteurist studies to explore how Brault’s work reflected (and in some cases helped instigate) changes in Quebec society over four decades. More than any other filmmaker, Brault managed to capture the culture’s zeitgeist. Distributed in Canada by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Distributed outside Canada by Indiana University Press.
Author : Jim Leach
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813598888
Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the American Empire (1986), Jesus of Montreal (1989), and The Barbarian Invasions (2003), the last of which won the Award. Yet Arcand has been making films since the early 1960s. When he started making films, Quebec was rapidly transforming from a relatively homogeneous community, united by its Catholic faith and French language and culture, into a more fragmented modern society. The Films of Denys Arcand sheds light on how Arcand addressed the impact of these changes from the 1960s, when the long-drawn-out debate on Quebec's possible separation from the rest of Canada began, to the present, in which the traditional cultural heritage has been further fragmented by the increasing presence of diasporic communities. His career and films offer an ideal case study for exploring the contradictions and tensions that have shaped Quebec cinema and culture in a period of increasing globalization and technological change.
Author : Mathias Hanf
Publisher : Grin Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3638762211
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,5, LMU Munich (Amerika Institut), course: Proseminar "Canada Today," 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Canadian cinema, as seen through its diverse scales, e.g. Franco- or Anglophone, documentary or fictional, independent- or blockbuster-film, reflects the cultural and social wealth of this young nation, and the artistic independence of some of its filmmakers, who, situated between Hollywood and different traditions from overseas, found their own unique voice. It is a voice which reflects the countries values within its history. It shows social, political, and cultural aspects of Canadian life. Whether it be the urban communities in the big cities, the endless landscapes of the provinces, or the personal and political struggles within notions of national identity, everything which defines this faceted country has found its expression also in the Canadian cinema. In the following, an overview shall be given on the development of Canadian film. In the second part, some films from Anglophone and Francophone cinema with the colorful topics of Canadian life shall be portrayed. The films stand as popular examples for many others to discuss certain issues such as Francophone and Anglophone biculturalism, Canadian multiculturalism, the struggles of minorities within the Canadian society, or loneliness and isolation due to technization and overwork in the big cities of the Canadian country.
Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0802084443
Melnyk argues passionately that Canadian cinema has never been a singular entity, but has continued to speak in the languages and in the voices of Canada's diverse population.
Author : Gerda Cammaer,Zoë Druick
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773544475
An investigation of the challenges faced by Canadian cinema in the digital age.
