Great Canadian Film Directors

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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Great Canadian Film Directors is the first major study that reflects the cultural and linguistic diversity of Canada's most dynamic film directors. The 19 essays in this collection focus on each filmmaker's ability to create a vision that both reveals and redefines our national cultures. Together, these essays, by established and emerging scholars, highlight the diversity, imaginative power, and talent of Canadian filmmakers. This collection's value is in its contemporary analysis of major figures as well as critical discussions of the work of women directors and young filmmakers. Filmographies and selected bibliographies for each director provide film students and the movie-going public with an unrivalled study of a cinema that now garners world attention.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-06-15
Mått152 x 229 x 32 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor488
FörlagUniversity of Alberta Press
ISBN9780888644794
UtmärkelserWinner of AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Show - Scholarly Typographic 2008

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Introduction; Wieland's Far Shore and Shipman's God's Country; The Fatal Leap; "It Takes Monsters to Do Things Like That"; Denys Arcand; David Cronenberg; Atom Egoyan; Activism and Aesthetics; Norman Jewison; Double Take; Straight Outta' Hogtown; Living In/Between; Women with a Movie Camera; Mina Shum; A Problem with Rules; Coward, Bully and Clown; Hanging in Plain Sight; Zach Kunuk and Inuit Filmmaking; Don McKellar; Lynne Stopkewich; Index.

"One Saturday in the winter of 1965 I talked my father into driving me to Toronto from our home in Oshawa, Ontario, to see a particular movie that I knew I would never see at the local cinema. I was 14 years old. What I saw that cold night made a profound and lasting impression on me. I grew up watching Hollywood westerns and commercial television shows and, like most people of my generation, I thoughtlessly consumed those products for escape and entertainment. Never before had I seen a film that encouraged me to think about myself, my own life and the province that was my home. The movie was called Nobody Waved Goodbye. It was produced at the National Film Board of Canada and directed by a Torontonian named Don Owen. Thus began my 40-year love affair with Canadian cinema. By becoming a passionate fan of Canadian cinema in the 1960s, I joined a relatively small group of people who go to see Canadian films because it nurtures our souls and provides us with powerful food for thought from a familiar point of view. [F]or the intrepid voluntary viewers out there, this book will be an invaluable resource-a map to navigate their courageous journey through the wonderfully contradictory worlds of our brave film artists and the almost invisible yet burning hearts of those who live on the frosty masthead of the North American continent." Clarke Mackey, Literary Review of Canada, October 2007