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Book SynopsisMaking a significant advance in the study of the film industry of the period, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s is also an ideal text for students, researchers, and Canadian film enthusiasts.
Trade Review'With his witty and conversational style, Pike proves as insightful an authority on the secondary directors and issues as on the mainstream. Recommended. All readers.' -- M.Yacowar Choice Magazine, vol 50:10:2013 'Pike's "sprawling academic monster" is a timely addition to a body of English-language work on cinema north of the 49th parallel.' -- Carole Kruger The French Review vol 83:03:2015
Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Praface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: What Is Canadian Cinema and What Happened to It at the End of the Twentieth Century? 1.Canadian Cinema 1896-1986: Invisibility and Difference 2.The Anxiety of Influence: David Cronenberg and the Canadian Imagination 3.Time Capsules: The Eighties Worlds of Denys Arcand and Patricia Rozema 4.Crossover Icons: The Faces of Canadian Cinema 5.Quebecois Auteurs: The New Internationalism of Jean-Claude Lauzon, L a Pool, and Robert Lepage 6.Cronenberg's Mutant Progeny: Genre film-making around the Turn of the Millennium 7.The Death of the Author? The Case of Atom Egoyan 8.The Canadian Mosaic: Margins and Ethnicities 9.Film-making at the Heart of the World: Guy Maddin Conclusion Notes Works Cited
