Challenge for Change

Thomas Waugh, professor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, is the author of The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. Michael Brendan Baker is Professor of Film Studies in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at Sheridan College. Ezra Winton is a PhD candidate in the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies at Carleton University and the founder of the Cinema Politca Network.

• Illustrations; Acknowledgments Foreword Putting Ideas into the World: A Conversation with Naomi Klein about Starting Conversations with Film / Ezra Winton & Naomi Klein 1 Introduction: Forty Years Later... a Space for Challenge for Change/Societe nouvelle / Michael Brendan Baker, Thomas Waugh, & Ezra Winton PART 1 HISTORICAL SPACES: IN THE HEAT OF THE ACTION 2 Grierson and Challenge for Change (1984) / Colin Low; 3 In the Hands of Citizens: A Video Report (1969) / Dorothy Todd Henaut & Bonnie Sherr Klein; 4 Saint-Jerome: The Experience of a Filmmaker as Social Animator (1968) / Fernand Dansereau; 5 A Voice for Canadian Indians: An Indian Film Crew (1968) / Noel Starblanket; 6 Fiction Film as Social Animator (1971-72) interview with Leonard Forest by Dorothy Todd Henaut; 7 Working with Film: Experiences with a Group of Films about Working Mothers (1975) / Kathleen Shannon, Elizabeth Prinn, Doris Mae Oulton, & Irene Angelico; 8 Memo to Michelle about Decentralizing the Means of Production (1972) / John Grierson; 9 Can We Evaluate Challenge for Change? (1972) / Dan Driscoll PART 2 COMMUNITY SPACES: FILMING AT THE MARGINS 10 Media for the People: The Canadian Experiments with Film and Video in Community Development (1992) / Peter K. Wiesner; 11 Cities for Change: The Housing Challenge / Gerda Johanna Cammaer; 12 The En tant que femmes Series, the Film Souris, tu m'inquietes, and the Imaging of Women's Consciousness in 1970s Quebec / Marie-Eve Fortin; 13 Le mouton noir: Videographe and the Legacy of Societe nouvelle / Scott Mackenzie; 14 The Things I Cannot Change: A Revisionary Reading / Brenda Longfellow PART 3 SCREEN SPACES: SPOTLIGHT ON THE FILMS AND FILMMAKERS 15 You Are on Indian Land: Interview with George Stoney (1980) / Alan Rosenthal; 16 Cree Hunters of Mistassini: Challenge for Change and Aboriginal Rights / Michelle Stewart; 17 "Nation Time" at Kwacha House: The Transitional Modalities of Encounter at Kwacha House - Halifax / Kass Banning; 18 The Films of Maurice Bulbulian: Science and Conscience / Thomas Waugh; 19 The Curious Case of Wilf: Popular Music in Canadian Documentary / Michael Brendan Baker; 20 Portapak as Performance: VTR St-Jacques and VTR Rosedale / Brian Rusted; 21 Bonnie Klein, Saul Alinsky, and the American Experience / Stephen Michael Charbonneau; 22 Michel Regnier's "Films-Outil" / Liz Czach; 23 Leonard Forest and Acadia / Jeanne Deslandes; 24 Filmmaker as History: The Interventionist Films of Martin Duckworth / Michael Lithgow; 25 Les filles du Roy / Jerry White; 26 In Praise of Anomaly: Le bonhomme and Rose's House / Kalli Paakspuu; 27 Getting Close and Staying Far: Pierre Lasry and the Solo Moms / Jason Lindop; 28 Paper Wheat: Alternative Theatre Meets Alternative Filmmaking / Christopher Meir; 29 "Would I Ever Like to Work": The "Working Mothers" Films and the Construction of Community / Rina Fraticelli; 30 O, Canada! George Stoney's Challenge (1999) / Deirdre Boyle PART 4 DISCURSIVE SPACES: THEORIZING CHALLENGE FOR CHANGE/SOCIETE NOUVELLE 31 Societe nouvelle: The Challenge to Change in the Alternative Public Sphere (1996) / Scott Mackenzie; 32 Meeting at the Poverty Line: Government Policy, Social Work, and Media Activism in the Challenge for Change Program / Zoe Druick; 33 Amateur Video and the Challenge for Change (1995) / Janine Marchessault; 34 Video: The Politics of Culture and Community (1996) / Ron Burnett; 35 Winds and Things: Towards a Reassessment of the Challenge for Change/Societe nouvelle Legacy / Marit Kathryn Corneil; 36 "If a Revolution Is Screened and No One Is There to See It, Does It Make a Sound?" The Politics of Distribution and Counterpublics / Ezra Winton and Jason Garrison PART 5 CONCLUSION: CONTEMPORARY REINCARNATIONS 37 Filmmaker-in-Residence: The Digital Grandchild of Challenge for Change Interview with Katerina Cizek by Liz Miller; 38 Thirty Years and Twelve Thousand Miles Away ... / Vijaya Mulay Challenge for Change/Societe nouvelle: The Complete Filmography; Comprehensive Bibliography; Contributors; Index