| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 468 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : Canadian cinema and the film director / George Melnyk -- Wieland's far shore and Shipman's God's country / Kay Armatage -- The fatal leap : accessing the films of Claude Jutra through history and symbol / David Clandfield -- "It takes monsters to do things like that" : the films of Jean-Claude Lauzon / Jim Leach -- Denys Arcand : a moralist in search of his audience / Pierre Véronneau -- David Cronenberg : mapping the monsterous male / George Melnyk -- Atom Egoyan : unnatural relations / William Beard -- Activism and aesthetics : the work of John Greyson / Christopher Gittings -- Norman Jewison : homecoming for a "Canadian pinko" / Bart Testa -- Double take : adaptation, remediation, and doubleness in the films of Robert Lepage / Peter Dickinson -- Straight outta' Hogtown : sex, drugs, and Bruce McDonald / Aaron Taylor -- Living in/between : the cinema of Léa Pool / Jennifer L. Gauthier -- Woman with a movie camera : Patricia Rozema's revisionist eye / Brenda Austin-Smith -- Mina Shum : the "Chinese" films and identities / Jacqueline Levitin -- A problem with rules : Gary Burns / Patricia Gruben -- Coward, bully, and clown : the dream-life of Michael Dowse / Bart Beaty -- Hanging in plain sight : the problem body in Thom Fitzgerald's films / Sally Chivers & Nicole Markotić -- Zach Kunuk and Inuit filmmaking / Jerry White -- Don McKellar : artistic polymath / Paul Salmon -- Lynne Stopkewich : abject sexualities / Kalli Paakspuu |
| Summary |
Film directors articulate creative visions that provide insights into national cultures. 18 essays highlight Canada's prominent Anglophone and Francophone filmmakers |
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Includes filmography: pages 405-418 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-430) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Motion pictures -- Canada.
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Canada -- Biography
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Motion pictures, Canadian.
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Motion pictures, Canadian -- History and criticism
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Motion pictures, Canadian
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Motion pictures
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Filmregisseur
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Canada
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Kanada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Melnyk, George
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| ISBN |
9780888645289 |
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0888645287 |
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