Research Catalog
Film and the city : the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema
- Title
- Film and the city : the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema / George Melnyk.
- Author
- Melnyk, George
- Publication
- Edmonton, AB : AU Press, [2014]
- ©2014
Details
- Description
- x, 309 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 23 cm
- Summary
- Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from the 1980s onward, Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of film and "urbanity"-the totality of urban culture and life as refracted through the filmmakers prism. Drawing on insights from both film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation long debated in Canadian studies, Melnyk considers how filmmakers interpret and employ the spatiality, visuality, and orality of urban space and how audiences read the films that result. In this way Film and the City argues that Canadian narrative film of the postmodern period has contributed to the articulation of a new, multifaceted understanding of national identity.--Back cover
- Alternative Title
- Urban imaginary in Canadian cinema
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema -- The city of faith -- The city of dreams -- The gendered city -- The city made flesh -- The diasporic city -- The city of transgressive desires -- The city of eternal youth -- The city of dysfunction -- Conclusion: national identity and the urban imagination.
- Call Number
- MFL 15-2668
- ISBN
- 9781927356593
- 1927356598
- 1927356601 (electronic bk.)
- 9781927356609 (electronic bk.)
- OCLC
- 854889972
- Author
- Melnyk, George, author.
- Title
- Film and the city : the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema / George Melnyk.
- Publisher
- Edmonton, AB : AU Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Melnyk, George. Film and the city. Edmonton : AU Press, Athabasca University, [2014] 9781927356609 (OCoLC)858716769Melnyk, George, author. Film and the city. (CaOONL)20139054022
- Research Call Number
- MFL 15-2668