Film in Canada
Oxford University Press, Canada (Verlag)
978-0-19-543243-5 (ISBN)
Jim Leach is professor and director of the Interdisciplinary MA in Popular Culture program in the Department of Communications, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. His main research and teaching interests include Canadian and British cinema, film theory, and cultural theory. He is the author of numerous books, including Doctor Who (2009), Understanding Movies, now in its fourth edition (with Louis Giannetti, 2008), and British Film (2004).
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
Erscheinungsdatum | 30.03.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | 23 photos (b/w film stills) |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 358 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-543243-6 / 0195432436 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-543243-5 / 9780195432435 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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