North of everything : English-Canadian cinema since 1980 / edited by William Beard and Jerry White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beard, William, 1946-

White, Jerry, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Canada--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture industry--Canada--History.

Motion picture industry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (513 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, c2002.

Summary:

This is the first book to comprehensively examine the development of English-Canadian cinema since 1980; previous books in English have dealt either with specific films or filmmakers, with policy, or with specific genres (avant-garde film, documentary, films by women, etc.). It deals with regional and institutional questions, with the new authors that are defining contemporary cinema in English Canada, with avant-garde work and work by Aboriginal people. Bringing together a wide variety of contributors, the book deals with an enormous amount of cinema that has helped transform North American culture of the last two decades.

Contents:

Intro; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SECTION ONE: Institutions, Politics, Histories, Forms; SECTION TWO: Feature Filmmakers and a Few Others; SECTION THREE: Aboriginal Voices; SECTION FOUR: The Avant Garde; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Screen Space, Screen Time, and Canadian Film Exhibition; Brave New Film Board; Imagining Region: A Survey of Newfoundland Film; English-Canadian Animation, 1975-2000; Shack-Wacky Animation: The Case of Manitoba; Conjugating Three Moments in Black Canadian Cinema; Fishy; Directed by Phillip Borsos

Janis Cole and Holly Dale's Cinema of MarginalityThirty-Two Paragraphs About David Cronenberg; The Cronenberg Effect; Repetition, Compulsion, and Representation in Atom Egoyan's Films; The Tuxedoed Fallacy: Intratextual Audiences in Two Films by François Girard; Greyson, Grierson, Godard, God: Reflections on the Cinema of John Greyson; Srinivas Krishna and the New Canadian Cinema; Fire and Ice: The Films of Guy Maddin; 35-mm Non-Fiction: An Interview with Ron Mann; A Canadian (Inter) National Cinema: William MacGillivray's Life Classes; Outlaw Insider: The Films of Bruce McDonald

The Radically Moderate Canadian: Don McKellar's Cinematic PersonaDeepa Mehta as Transnational Filmmaker, or You Can't Go Home Again; Political Alignments and the Lure of 'More Existential Questions' in the Films of Patricia Rozema; States of Emergency in the Films of Anne Wheeler; Studio One: Of Storytellers and Stories; In the Hands of the People: A Conversation with Marjorie Beaucage; Cowboy Filmmaking: An Interview with Gil Cardinal; Alanis Obomsawin, Documentary Form and the Canadian Nation(s); Uncommon Visions: The Films of Loretta Todd

A Report on Canadian Experimental Film Institutions, 1980-2000Ten Years of Dreams About Art; Mike Hoolboom and the Second Generation of AIDS Films in Canada; The Lisa Steele Tapes: Investigation and Vision; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-469) and index.

ISBN:

1-4593-0387-3