INDICE: Timeline; Introduction: Not Just Another National Cinema; Blame Hollywood; Screening the Nation; Identifying the Nation; Part 1: Imagining Canada; 1: The National-Realist Tradition; Documenting the Nation; 1964 Revisited: TheSense of a Beginning; The Persistence of Realism; 2: Realism and Its Discontents; Questioning Cinema Truth; Too Real? A Married Couple and Les Ordres; Faking It: The Canadian Mockumentary; 3: Traces: Space, Place, and Identity; 'Vrais films de chez nous': Post-war Quebec Feature Films; Obliterated Environments: Space in Direct Cinema Fiction Films; A Sense of Placelessness: The Capital Cost Allowance Act and After; 4: The Canadian Fantastic; Paul Almond's Fantastic Trilogy; Canadian Gothic; Lost and Delirious: The Films of André Forcier and Guy Maddin; Part 2: Popular cinema/Art cinema; 5: Are Genres American?; Inflecting American Genres; Deconstructing Genre; Implanted Memories; 6: In Searchof the National Popular: Carle and Cronenberg; The Sins of Gilles Carle; The Challenge of David Cronenberg; 7: Two Canadian Auteurs: Arcand and Egoyan; Upsand Downs: Denys Arcand's History Lessons; Dark Mirrors: Reflections on Atom Egoyan; Postscript; 8: Stupid Films and Smart Films; Boys and Girls: The Quebec Stupid Film; Death and Irony: Canadian Smart Films; Part 3: Redefining Canadian Cinema; 9: Shifting Centres and Margins; The Cinema We Need?; Dirty Moviesand Aerial Views: Jack Darcus and William MacGillivray; Jean Pierre Lefebvre and the Quebec Imaginary; 10: Engendering the Nation; Sex in a Cold Climate; Dream Lives: The Rise of Women's Cinema in Canada; The Real and the Visionary: Léa Pool and Patricia Rozema; Thom Fitzgerald's Alien Bodies; 11: Possible Worlds: Diasporic Cinema in Canada; Where Is Home? Diasporic Filmmakers in English Canada; Quebec: Métissage and the Politics of Identity; New Worlds/Old Stories; 12: The Real and the Imaginary: Canadian Film and the Postmodern Condition; Staging the Global and the Local: Bruce Sweeney and Robert Lepage; Film in Canada in the Twenty-First century: Congorama and Away from Her; Appendix A: Timeline: Canadian Films; Appendix B: 'Lights, Camera, Action' Study Questions; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography
- ISBN: 978-0-19-543243-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Desconocida
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés