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One hundred years of Canadian cinema

Title
One hundred years of Canadian cinema / George Melnyk.
Author
Melnyk, George.
Publication
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2004], ©2004.

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x, 361 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
Summary
"In One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema, George Melnyk offers a twenty-first-century perspective on a fascinating film tradition, the distinctness of which has attracted the attention of the global cinematic community." "Melnyk's historical survey is comprehensive, examining the achievements of dramatic, documentary, and experimental film-making from the earliest days until the present, as well as the cultural, political, and theoretical trends that have shaped contemporary film in Canada." "Drawing on the insights of scholars, critics, and film-makers to provide a coherent appraisal of the state of the film industry and Canada's cinematic art as it enters its second century, Melnyk weaves the history of English and French Canada together in an attempt to understand the achievements and, ultimately, the failures of a 'national cinema.'"--BOOK JACKET.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Foundations of the silver screen -- 2. Back to God's country : the Shipman saga -- 3. The dirty thirties : the British quota era -- 4. The rise of the NFB : Grierson and McLaren -- 5. Quebec goes to the movies -- 6. Budge Crawley and the other documentary tradition -- 7. Goin' down the road : the resurrection of Anglo-Canadian feature films -- 8. The escapist seventies -- 9. The Quebec auteur : from Perrault to Arcand -- 10. English-Canadian auteurs : David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan -- 11. English-Canadian, Quebec and aboriginal women film-makers -- 12. Experimental and cult films : Snow, Wieland, and Maddin -- 13. Quebec's next generation : Lauzon to Turpin -- 14. English Canada's next generation : McDonald to Burns -- 15. The anguished critic -- 16. The Canadian film industry and the digital revolution -- 17. A history of the future.
ISBN
  • 080203568X (bound) :
  • 0802084443 (pbk.) :
OCLC
  • ocm54206184
  • SCSB-5117320
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Columbia University Libraries