Working on screen : representations of the working class in Canadian cinema / edited by Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khouri, Malek, 1953-

Varga, Darrell, 1966-

Series:

Cultural studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Canada.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As themes in film studies literature, work and the working class have long occupied a peripheral place in the evaluation of Canadian cinema, often set aside in the critical literature for the sake of a unifying narrative that assumes a division between Quebecois and English Canada's film production, a social-realist documentary aesthetic, and what might be called a 'younger brother' relationship with the United States. In Working on Screen, contributors examine representations of socio-economic class across the spectrum of Canadian film, video, and television, covering a wide range of class-related topics and dealing with them as they intersect with history, political activism, globalization, feminism, queer rights, masculinity, regional marginalization, cinematic realism, and Canadian nationalism. Of concern in this collection are the daily lives and struggles of working people and the ways in which the representation of the experience of class in film fosters or marginalizes a progressive engagement with history, politics, and societies around the world. Working on Screen thus expands the scholarly debates on the concept of national cinema and builds on the rich, formative efforts of Canadian cultural criticism that held dear the need for cultural autonomy.

Contents:

Introduction: working on screen / Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga

In search of the Canadian labour film / David Frank

Communists, class, and culture in Canada / Scott Forsyth

The image of the 'people' in the CBC's Canada: a people's history / Darrell Varga

Work it girl! Sex, labour, and nationalism in Valerie / Rebecca Sullivan

Not playing, working: class, masculinity, and nation in the Canadian hockey film / Bart Beaty

Other-ing the worker in Canadian 'gay cinema': Thom Fitzgerald's The hanging garden / Malek Khouri

Whose museum is it anyway? Discourses of resistance in the adaptation of The Glace Bay Miners' Museum into Margaret's Museum / Peter Urquhart

Activating history: Sara Diamond and the Women's Labour History Project / Susan Lord

Dirty laundry: re-imagining the Canadian Pacific Railway and the construction of the nation / Margot Francis

Look like a worker and act like a worker: stereotypical representations of the working class in Quebec fiction feature films / Andre Loiselle

Inscriptions of class and nationalism in Canadian 'realist' cinema: Final offer and Canada's sweetheart: the saga of Hal C. Banks / Joseph Kispal-Kovacs

Rule and the representation of class relations in Canadian film / John McCullough

Counter narratives, class politics, and metropolitan dystopias: representations of globalization in Maelström, waydowntown, and La moitie gauche du frigo / Brenda Longfellow.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-290).

ISBN:

1-4426-5886-X

0-8020-9388-4

1-281-99190-2

9786611991906

1-4426-8368-6

OCLC:

1013963446