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North of everything : English-Canadian cinema since 1980 / edited by William Beard and Jerry White.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.C2 N67 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Canada--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Canada.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 488 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- The essays in North of Everything examines the state of Canadian film during a period of critical change. Their focus ranges from the conventional cinema to the avant garde, NFB documentaries to DIY videotapes. This comprehensive volume presents essays on established and emerging filmmakers and includes discussions of Canadian film institutions, history, and policy.
- Contents:
- Section 1 Institutions, Politics, Histories, Forms
- Screen Space, Screen Time, and Canadian Film Exhibition / Charles Acland 2
- Brave New Film Board / D.B. Jones 19
- Imagining Region: A Survey of Newfoundland Film / Noreen Golfman 46
- English-Canadian Animation, 1975-2000 / Chris Robinson 60
- Shack-Wacky Animation: The Case of Manitoba / Gene Walz 72
- Conjugating Three Moments in Black Canadian Cinema / Kass Banning 84
- Fishy / Geoff Pevere 100
- Section 2 Feature Filmmakers and a Few Others
- Directed by Phillip Borsos / Blaine Allan 106
- Janis Cole and Holly Dale's Cinema of Marginality / Kay Armatage 122
- Thirty-Two Paragraphs About David Cronenberg / William Beard 144
- The Cronenberg Effect / Wayne Rothschild 160
- Repetition, Compulsion, and Representation in Atom Egoyan's Films / Monique Tschofen 166
- The Tuxedoed Fallacy: Intratextual Audiences in Two Films by Francois Girard / Brian McIlroy 184
- Greyson, Grierson, Godard, God: Reflections on the Cinema of John Greyson / Christine Ramsay 192
- Srinivas Krishna and the New Canadian Cinema / Lysandra Woods 206
- Fire and Ice: The Films of Guy Maddin / Steven Shaviro 216
- 35-mm Non-Fiction: An Interview with Ron Mann / Jerry White 222
- A Canadian (Inter)National Cinema: William MacGillivray's Life Classes / Robin Wood 232
- Outlaw Insider: The Films of Bruce McDonald / Steve Gravestock 242
- The Radically Moderate Canadian: Don McKellar's Cinematic Persona / Andre Loiselle 256
- Deepa Mehta as Transnational Filmmaker, or You Can't Go Home Again / Jacqueline Levitin 270
- Political Alignments and the Lure of 'More Existential Questions' in the Films of Patricia Rozema / Lee Parpart 294
- States of Emergency in the Films of Anne Wheeler / Susan Lord 312
- Section 3 Aboriginal Voices
- Studio One: Of Storytellers and Stories / Maria de Rosa 328
- In the Hands of the People: A Conversation with Marjorie Beaucage / Lynne Bell, Janice Williamson 342
- Cowboy Filmmaking: An Interview with Gil Cardinal / William Beard, Jerry White 350
- Alanis Obomsawin, Documentary Form and the Canadian Nation(s) / Jerry White 364
- Uncommon Visions: The Films of Loretta Todd / Jason Silverman 376
- Section 4 The Avant Garde
- A Report on Canadian Experimental Film Institutions, 1980-2000 / Michael Zryd 392
- Ten Years of Dreams About Art / Laura U. Marks 402
- Mike Hoolboom and the Second Generation of AIDS Films in Canada / Thomas Waugh 416
- The Lisa Steele Tapes: Investigation and Vision / Catherine Russell 430.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0888643985
- 088864390X :
- OCLC:
- 49349789
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