{"product_id":"film-in-canada-revised-9780195432435","title":"Film in Canada Revised","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering a current and comprehensive analysis of Canadian cinema in its political and cultural contexts, this new edition of Film in Canada introduces students to a cinema that is as diverse as the country itself. Major developments in Canadian filmmaking are explored in depth, from direct cinema and the national-realist films of the 1960s to later avant-garde projects and beyond. With detailed discussions on recent and well-established works by prominent Canadian filmmakers, along with new film commentaries and movie stills, this text is an invaluable resource for film students and film lovers alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book reads well from beginning to end as an evolving argument and discussion with many facets, yet it knits together without simplifying. . . Leach's discussion of direct cinema is the most useful I have found anywhere.\" * Roger Holdstock, Douglas College   *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTimeline Introduction: Not Just Another National Cinema Blame Hollywood Screening the Nation Identifying the Nation Part 1: Imagining Canada 1: The National-Realist Tradition Documenting the Nation 1964 Revisited: The Sense of a Beginning The Persistence of Realism 2: Realism and Its Discontents Questioning Cinema Truth Too Real? A Married Couple and Les Ordres Faking It: The Canadian Mockumentary 3: Traces: Space, Place, and Identity 'Vrais films de chez nous': Post-war Quebec Feature Films Obliterated Environments: Space in Direct Cinema Fiction Films A Sense of Placelessness: The Capital Cost Allowance Act and After 4: The Canadian Fantastic Paul Almond's Fantastic Trilogy Canadian Gothic Lost and Delirious: The Films of André Forcier and Guy Maddin Part 2: Popular cinema\/Art cinema 5: Are Genres American? Inflecting American Genres Deconstructing Genre Implanted Memories 6: In Search of the National Popular: Carle and Cronenberg The Sins of Gilles Carle The Challenge of David Cronenberg 7: Two Canadian Auteurs: Arcand and Egoyan Ups and Downs: Denys Arcand's History Lessons Dark Mirrors: Reflections on Atom Egoyan Postscript 8: Stupid Films and Smart Films Boys and Girls: The Quebec Stupid Film Death and Irony: Canadian Smart Films Part 3: Redefining Canadian Cinema 9: Shifting Centres and Margins The Cinema We Need? Dirty Movies and Aerial Views: Jack Darcus and William MacGillivray Jean Pierre Lefebvre and the Quebec Imaginary 10: Engendering the Nation Sex in a Cold Climate Dream Lives: The Rise of Women's Cinema in Canada The Real and the Visionary: Léa Pool and Patricia Rozema Thom Fitzgerald's Alien Bodies 11: Possible Worlds: Diasporic Cinema in Canada Where Is Home? Diasporic Filmmakers in English Canada Quebec: Métissage and the Politics of Identity New Worlds\/Old Stories 12: The Real and the Imaginary: Canadian Film and the Postmodern Condition Staging the Global and the Local: Bruce Sweeney and Robert Lepage Film in Canada in the Twenty-First century: Congorama and Away from Her Appendix A: Timeline: Canadian Films Appendix B: 'Lights, Camera, Action' Study Questions Notes Bibliography Filmography","brand":"Oxford University Press Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51358974083415,"sku":"9780195432435","price":90.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195432435.jpg?v=1754123050","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/film-in-canada-revised-9780195432435","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}