Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium / edited by Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carruthers, Lee, 1971- editor.

Tepperman, Charles, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Canada--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queens University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Over the past two decades Canadian filmmaking has undergone a dramatic transformation. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium examines the particularities of contemporary Canadian cinema, tracing its eclectic energies across local and global forms and presenting case studies of films, filmmakers, film contexts, and key developments since 2000.

Contents:

Cover

CANADIAN CINEMA in the NEW MILLENNIUM

Title

Copyright

Contents

Tables and Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Towards a Renewed Critical Optics for Contemporary Canadian Cinema

PART ONE: FEATURE FILMS AND FILMMAKERS

1 Speaking across Borders: Xavier Dolan and the Transnationalism of Contemporary Auteur Cinema in Quebec

2 An Equivocal Auteur: Gauging Style and Substance in the Films of Denis Villeneuve

3 A "Momentary Melancholy": Female Desire and the Promise of Happiness in the Cinema of Sarah Polley

4 Indigenous Women's Cinema in Quebec: The Works and Words of Mohawk Filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau

5 Le cinéma à l'estomac: Denis Côté and the New Wave of Quebec Cinema (2004-19)

6 Fluid Privilege: Reading "Canadian" Water in Wet Bum (2014) and Sleeping Giant (2015)

7 Toronto's New DIY Filmmakers

8 Northern Frights: Canadian Horror in the Twenty-First Century

PART TWO: DOCUMENTARY AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING

9 Beauty Day and the Crises of Self-Directed Work

10 Mythologizing Manitoba: The Negated Truth of My Winnipeg

11 Indigenizing the Archive: Souvenir and the NFB

12 I-doc and My-doc: Bear 71 and Highrise as Canadian Documentaries

13 Diasporic Sights: Trauma and Representation in Recent Canadian Poetic Cinema

14 dominique t. skoltz and New States of Cinematic Matter

PART THREE: CANADIAN FILM CONTEXTS, FESTIVALS, AND INDUSTRIES

15 A Taxing Culture: Reconsidering the Service Production

16 Collective Action! Unions in the Canadian Film and Television Industry

17 Making Room: International Co-productions and Canadian National Cinema

18 Troubling Toronto Queer Festivals: Transgressions in and of Queer Counterpublics

19 From Showcase to Lightbox: Programming the National on the Festival Circuit

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780228014928

0228014921

OCLC:

1356573995