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Great Canadian film directors

Title
Great Canadian film directors / edited by George Melnyk.
Publication
Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Melnyk, George.
Description
xviii, 468 pages : portraits; 23 cm
Subject
  • Motion picture producers and directors > Canada > Biography
  • Motion pictures, Canadian
  • Motion pictures, Canadian > History and criticism
  • Motion pictures > Canada
  • Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma > Canada > Biographies
  • Cinéma canadien
  • Cinéma canadien > Histoire et critique
  • Cinéma > Canada
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes filmography (p. 405-418), bibliographical references (p. 419-430) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Canadian cinema and the film director / George Melnyk -- 1. Wieland's far shore and Shipman's God's country / Kay Armatage -- 2. The fatal leap : accessing the films of Claude Jutra through history and symbol / David Clandfield -- 3. "It takes monsters to do things like that" : the films of Jean-Claude Lauzon / Jim Leach -- 4. Denys Arcand : a moralist in search of his audience / Pierre Veronneau -- 5. David Cronenberg : mapping the monsterous male / George Melnyk -- 6. Atom Egoyan : unnatural relations / William Beard -- 7. Activism and aesthetics : the work of John Greyson / Christopher Gittings -- 8. Norman Jewison : homecoming for a "Canadian Pinko" / Bart Testa -- 9. Double take : adaptation, remediation, and doubleness in the films of Robert Lepage / Peter Dickinson -- 10. Straight outta' Hogtown : sex, drugs, and Bruce McDonald / Aaron Taylor -- 11. Living in/between : the cinema of Lea Pool / Jennifer L. Gauthier -- 12. Woman with a movie camera : Patricia Rozema's revisionist eye / Brenda Austin-Smith -- 13. Mina Shum : the "Chinese" films and identities / Jacqueline Levitin -- 14. A problem with rules : Gary Burns / Patricia Gruben -- 15. Coward, bully, and clown : the dream-life of Michael Dowse / Bart Beaty -- 16. Hanging in plain sight : the problem body in Thom Fitzgerald's films / Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotic -- 17. Zach Kunuk and Inuit filmmaking / Jerry White -- 18. Don McKellar : artistic polymath / Paul Salmon -- 19. Lynne Stopkewich : abject sexualities / Kalli Paakspuu.
ISBN
  • 9780888644794
  • 0888644795
OCLC
  • ocm77378782
  • 77378782
  • SCSB-5352110
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Columbia University Libraries