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Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Malek Khouri
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552381991
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) was created in 1939 to produce, distribute, and promote Canadian cinema both domestically and abroad. In Filming Politics, author Malek Khouri explores the work of the NFB during this period and argues that the political discourse of the films produced by this institution offered a counter-hegemonic portrayal of working class people and presented them as agents of social change. Filming Politics brings to light a number of films from the early years of the NFB, most of which have long been forgotten.
Author : Darrell Varga
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Atlantic Provinces
ISBN : 9781552382486
Offers a scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. This book provides a historical overview of film and television in the region, as well as essays on specific topics such as popular TV (""The Trailer Park Boys""), early TV (""The Don Messer Show"") and the work of filmmakers such as Bill MacGillivray and Andrea Dorfman.
Author : Chris Gittings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : James E. Page,National Film Board of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0772200041
Author : Jim Shedden,Barbara Sternberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1773102036
Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our culture's stories, its memory. Moments of Perceptionis a landmark book. The first history of twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Canadian experimental filmmaking, it maps avant-garde films from the 1950s to the present day, including their contradictions and complexities. Experimental film is political in its very existence, critical of the status quo by definition. In Canada, some of the country's best-known artists took up the moving image as a form of artistic expression, allowing them to explore explicitly political themes. Mike Hoolboom's exposure of the horror of AIDS, Josephine Massarella's concern for the environment, and Joyce Wieland's satiric look at US patriotism are just a few examples of work that contributed to social movementsand provided a means to explore issues of race and gender and LGBTQ2S+ and Indigenous identities. Featuring a major essay on the history of the movement by film scholar Mike Zryd and profiles of key filmmakers by film historian Stephen Broomer and editors Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg, Moments of Perceptionoffers a fresh perspective on the ever-evolving history of Canada's experimental film and moving-image media arts.
Author : Jim Leach
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015063372794
"Film in Canada offers a comprehensive examination of Canadian cinema in its political and cultural contexts. While highlighting the films and filmmakers that have defined the national industry since the 1960s, this book also looks at many of the factors that have influenced Canadian filmmaking, including Canada's ethnic and linguistic diversity, the country's national identity, and the emergence of a global media marketplace. Each chapter explores both historical trends and contemporary examples of a specific topic, allowing the chapters to be used in sequence or independently. With careful annotations, a detailed filmography and bibliography, and a ten-page insert of film stills, this book is ideal for students of Canadian film or of Canadian arts and culture generally."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Seth Feldman,Joyce Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015003759514
Author : Brian Winston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838718749
Powerfully posing questions of ethics, ideology, authorship and form, documentary film has never been more popular than it is today. Edited by one of the leading British authorities in the field, The Documentary Film Book is an essential guide to current thinking on documentary film. In a series of fascinating essays, key international experts discuss the theory of documentary, outline current understandings of its history (from pre-Flaherty to the post-Griersonian world of digital 'i-Docs'), survey documentary production (from Africa to Europe, and from the Americas to Asia), consider documentaries by marginalised minority communities, and assess its contribution to other disciplines and arts. Brought together here in one volume, these scholars offer compelling evidence as to why, over the last few decades, documentary has come to the centre of screen studies.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789401200141
Long recognized for outstanding National Film Board documentaries and innovative animated movies, Canada has recently emerged from the considerable shadow of the Hollywood elephant with a series of feature films that have captured the attention of audiences around the world. This is the first anthology to focus on Canada's feature films - those acknowledged as its very best. With essays by senior academics and leading scholars from across the country as well as some fresh new voices, Canada's Best Features offers penetrating analyses of fifteen award-winning films. Internationally acclaimed directors David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Denys Arcand, and Claude Jutra are represented here. Noteworthy films include Mon oncle Antoine, often cited as Canada's number one film of all time, such Cannes Festival favourites as Le déclin de l'empire américain and Exotica, and cult films Careful by Guy Maddin and Masala by Srinivas Krishna. The essays offer the latest word on these films and filmmakers, done from a variety of perspectives. Some of the films have never been examined in-depth before. Complete filmographies and bibliographies accompany each essay. A contextualizing introduction by Professor Gene Walz provides the necessary overview. An annotated bibliography of books on the Canadian film industry completes this impressive package.
Author : Ted Magder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005162107
"The development of the feature film industry in Canada has been uncertain and difficult, with problems usually attributed to the country's small population and US domination of the movie industry. Ted Magder goes beyond these obvious influences in his examination of Canada's state policies as they affected the production of Canadian feature films from the First World War to the present. He presents a study focusing on the interplay between government policy and the dynamics of the industry, and undertakes an examination of cultural dependency in Canada. State policies, Magder points out, are related to domestic forces that impinge upon and set limits to policy decisions and their implementation." "In the immediate postwar period, the tone for much of Canada's cultural policies was set by the National Film Board and the recommendations of the Massey Commission. Members of both organizations expressed distaste for films designed to entertain and deemed feature filmmaking unworthy of support. A change of heart took place in the watershed year of 1967 with the passing of the Canadian Film Development Corporation Act, when Canadians finally entered the business of feature film production. Magder considers how this came to pass, what had changed within the industry itself to make feature film production viable, and why the state changed its position from one of neglect to one of support. In the last five chapters, he examines the contradictions and limitations that have bedevilled Canadian feature film production over the last two decades." "In his conclusion, Magder proposes that both the notion of cultural dependency and the goal of public support for cultural production to express national identity need to be re-examined."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : NYPL:33433014395564
Author : Oeter Morris
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-08-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773560727
Other Canadian film producers concentrated their efforts on short productions, mostly in government or commercial companies such as Associated Screen News of Montreal. The works of Gordon Spalding, Bill Oliver, and Albert Tessier are discussed in this context. Morris concludes with the founding of the National Film Board which, under the dynamic guidance of John Grierson, was to breathe new life into a moribund industry. In a postscript Morris explores some of the reasons for the unique development of Canadian film making -- particularly its use of natural settings and documentary when virtually the rest of the world's industry was following the Hollywood pattern of studio location and fictional plots -- and examines the relationship of the early industry to later developments in Canadian film making. At a time when Canada's cultural industries are struggling to survive in the wake of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and under the threat of Free Trade with Mexico, Embattled Shadows makes essential reading.
Author : Mathias Hanf
Publisher : Grin Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,5 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.
