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Offering a current and comprehensive analysis of Canadian cinema in its political and cultural contexts, this new edition of Film in Canada introduces students to a cinema that is as diverse as the country itself. Major developments in Canadian filmmaking are explored in depth, from direct cinema and the national-realist films of the 1960s to later avant-garde projects and beyond. With detailed discussions on recent and well-established works by prominent Canadian filmmakers, along with new film commentaries and movie stills, this text is an invaluable resource for film students and film lovers alike.
Contents
Timeline
Introduction: Not Just Another National Cinema
Blame Hollywood
Screening the Nation
Identifying the Nation
Part 1: Imagining Canada
1: The National-Realist Tradition
Documenting the Nation
1964 Revisited: The Sense of a Beginning
The Persistence of Realism
2: Realism and Its Discontents
Questioning Cinema Truth
Too Real? A Married Couple and Les Ordres
Faking It: The Canadian Mockumentary
3: Traces: Space, Place, and Identity
'Vrais films de chez nous': Post-war Quebec Feature Films
Obliterated Environments: Space in Direct Cinema Fiction Films
A Sense of Placelessness: The Capital Cost Allowance Act and After
4: The Canadian Fantastic
Paul Almond's Fantastic Trilogy
Canadian Gothic
Lost and Delirious: The Films of André Forcier and Guy Maddin
Part 2: Popular cinema/Art cinema
5: Are Genres American?
Inflecting American Genres
Deconstructing Genre
Implanted Memories
6: In Search of the National Popular: Carle and Cronenberg
The Sins of Gilles Carle
The Challenge of David Cronenberg
7: Two Canadian Auteurs: Arcand and Egoyan
Ups and Downs: Denys Arcand's History Lessons
Dark Mirrors: Reflections on Atom Egoyan
Postscript
8: Stupid Films and Smart Films
Boys and Girls: The Quebec Stupid Film
Death and Irony: Canadian Smart Films
Part 3: Redefining Canadian Cinema
9: Shifting Centres and Margins
The Cinema We Need?
Dirty Movies and Aerial Views: Jack Darcus and William MacGillivray
Jean Pierre Lefebvre and the Quebec Imaginary
10: Engendering the Nation
Sex in a Cold Climate
Dream Lives: The Rise of Women's Cinema in Canada
The Real and the Visionary: Léa Pool and Patricia Rozema
Thom Fitzgerald's Alien Bodies
11: Possible Worlds: Diasporic Cinema in Canada
Where Is Home? Diasporic Filmmakers in English Canada
Quebec: Métissage and the Politics of Identity
New Worlds/Old Stories
12: The Real and the Imaginary: Canadian Film and the Postmodern Condition
Staging the Global and the Local: Bruce Sweeney and Robert Lepage
Film in Canada in the Twenty-First century: Congorama and Away from Her
Appendix A: Timeline: Canadian Films
Appendix B: 'Lights, Camera, Action' Study Questions
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
