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Moments of perception : experimental film in Canada
- Title
- Moments of perception : experimental film in Canada / Stephen Broomer and Michael Zryd ; edited by Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg.
- Author
- Broomer, Stephen
- Publication
- Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, [2021]
- ©2021
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Text | Use in library | PN1995.9.E96 B77 2021 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 346 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
- Summary
- "Moments of Perception is a landmark book. The first history of twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Canadian experimental filmmaking, it maps avant-garde films from the 1950s to the present day, including their contradictions and complexities. Experimental film is political in its very existence, critical of the status quo by definition. In Canada, some of the country's best-known artists took up the moving image as a form of artistic expression, allowing them to explore explicitly political themes. Mike Hoolboom's exposure of the horror of AIDS, Josephine Massarella's concern for the environment, and Joyce Wieland's satiric look at US patriotism are just a few examples of work that contributed to social movements and provided a means to explore issues of race and gender and LGBTQ2S+ and Indigenous identities. Featuring a major essay on the history of the movement by film scholar Mike Zryd and profiles of key filmmakers by film historian Stephen Broomer and editors Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg, Moments of Perception offers a fresh perspective on the ever-evolving history of Canada's experimental film and moving-image media arts."--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references, filmographies and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- ISBN
- 9781773102030
- 1773102036
- OCLC
- on1244088230
- SCSB-14115679
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library