| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 338 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
National cinemas series |
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National cinemas series.
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| Contents |
Immigration films -- attracting the right/white kind of invader-settlers -- Melodrama and the ideological cinema of white invasion and settlement -- White ethnographics: 'some white people are whiter than others' -- Legislating a national cinema -- Establishing the National Film Board of Canada -- Postwar schemes and dependency -- The NFB and feature production -- Funding differences at the NFB: regionalization, Studio D and new initatives in film -- State intervention: the legislation of a Canadian feature-film industry -- The tax-shelter boom and Canada's Hollywood features -- Telefilm Canada -- Co-production -- External and internal colonialism -- Ethics and gendered nationalisms -- Genre texts -- Melodrama -- The road movie: My American Cousin, Highway 61, Goin' DowThe Road -- The western: Road to Saddle River and the Grey Fox -- Re-presenting the FLQ crisis -- Whiting out the Indigene -- Returning the gaze: Aboriginal film-makers and decolonization -- Screening gender -- Screening sexuality |
| Summary |
"Canadian National Cinema explores the idea of the nation across Canada's film history, from early treatments of colonization and white settlement such as The Wheatfields of Canada to more recent films such as The Grey Fox, The Adjuster, No, Le confessionnal and Map of the Human Heart." "Through case studies of key films - both well-known and neglected - Christopher Gittings uncovers the tensions in Canadian cinema between white Anglo and Native representations, and between Francophone and Anglo-Canadian narratives. Engaging with questions of inclusion and exclusion, race and representation, gender and sexuality, he shows how access to the production of cinematic images has determined who is represented, and how." "Following the changing images of the 'founding nations' from early ethnographic films such as Saving the Sagas to documentary and feature films by contemporary First Nation film-makers, Canadian National Cinema traces Canadian cinema's continuing reinvention of the nation."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-327), filmography (pages 328-330) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on October 1, 2020) |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Canada -- History
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Motion picture industry -- Canada -- History
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ART -- Film & Video.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
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Motion picture industry
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Motion pictures
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Film
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Filmkunst.
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Canada
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Kanada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134764860 |
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1134764863 |
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9780203086292 |
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0203086295 |
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9781134764815 |
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1134764812 |
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9781134764853 |
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1134764855 |
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