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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema is a rich, diverse overview of Canadian cinema. Responding to the latest developments in Canadian film studies this volume takes into account the variety of artistic voices, media technologies and places which have marked cinema in Canada throughout its history. Drawing on a range of established and emerging scholars from a range of disciplines, this volume will be useful to teachers, scholars and to a general readership interested in cinema in Canada. Moving beyond the director-focused approach of much previous scholarship, this book is concerned with communities, institutions, and audiences for Canadian cinema at both national and international levels. The choice of subjects covered ranges from popular, genre cinema to the most experimental of artistic interventions. Canadian cinema is seen in its interaction with other forms of art-making and media production in Canada and at the international level. Particular attention has been paid to the work of Indigenous filmmakers, members of diasporic communities and feminist and LGBTQ artists. The result is a book attentive to the complex social and institutional contexts in which Canadian cinema is made and consumed.
List of contents
- Introduction
- I. Frames
- 1. Three Canadian Film Policy Frameworks
- Ira Wagman
- 2. Canadian Cinema and the Intellectual Milieu
- Richard Cavell
- 3. On the Road: Canadian Cinema and the World
- Joumane Chahine
- 4. Landscape as Cinematic Effect
- Johanne Sloan
- 5. Movie Envy: Cinema in the White Cube (Montreal, 1995-2015)
- Olivier Asselin
- II. Cultures
- 6. (Re)Claiming Cultural Identity: The NFB's Eskimo Legends and Inuit Animation from Cape Dorset
- Suzanne Buchan
- 7. Canadian Indigenous Cinema: From Alanis Obomsawin to the Wapikoni Mobile
- Karine Bertrand
- 8. The Polarities and Hybridities of Arctic Cinemas
- Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport
- 9. Diasporic Intimacy: Chinese-Canadian Documentary and the Poetics of Relation
- Lily Cho
- 10. Canadian Cinema and its Borders
- Graciela Martínez-Zalce
- III. Cities/Places
- 11. Regional Scenes and Canadian Screens: Film in Atlantic Canada
- Darrell Varga
- 12. A Poetics of Discretion
- Marion Froger
- 13. The Emotional Geographies of Quebec Cinema
- Daniel Laforest
- 14. Toronto on Screen
- Ian Robinson
- IV. Sensibilities
- 15. Quebec Cinema as Global Cinema
- William Marshall
- 16. Stand Tall: Winnipeg Cinema and the Civic Imaginary
- Andrew Burke
- 17. Still Here, Still Queer? Rethinking Queer Canadian Cinemas/Canadian Cinemas Queered
- Thomas Waugh and Fulvia Massimi with Lisa Aalders
- 18. Political Modernism, Policy Environments and Digital Daring: The Changing Politics and Practice of Cine-Feminism in Quebec, 1967-2015
- Brenda Longfellow
- 19. From Expanded to Intimate Cinemas in Canadian Experimental Film/Video
- Monika Kin Gagnon
- V. Forms and Genres
- 20. The Bloody Brood: Canadian Horror Cinema-Past and Present
- Scott Preston
- 21. Popular Quebec Cinema and the Appeal of Folk Homogeneity
- André Loiselle
- 22. The Musicality of Canadian Cinema
- Michael Brendan Baker
- 23. The World Navigate: Interactive Documentaries in Canada
- Jessica Mulvogue
- 24. The Gaming Turn
- Bruno Lessard
About the author
Janine Marchessault is Professor of Cinema and Media at York University. She is the author of Ecstatic Worlds: Media, Utopias and Ecologies (2017); Cosmic Media: Marshall McLuhan (2005); and (co)editor of numerous collections including 3D Cinema and Beyond (w/ D. Adler et al 2013); Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (w/ M. Gagnon 2014); and Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban (w/ M. Darroch 2014).
Will Straw is James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 1950s America (2006) and an editor or co-editor of over 20 volumes of scholarship, including the Cambridge Companion of Rock and Pop, Circulation and the City, Formes urbaines, Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts and Critical Frameworks and Accounting for Culture: Thinking through Cultural Citizenship.
Summary
This handbook uncovers the complex social and institutional contexts in which Canadian cinema is made and consumed.
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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema is a welcome addition to the literature on Canadian cinema and screen practices offering essays that will work well as course readings but which also offer insights into emerging areas or turning to areas that have been previously underexamined (musicality in Canadian cinema anyone?).
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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema is a welcome addition to the literature on Canadian cinema and screen practices offering essays that will work well as course readings but which also offer insights into emerging areas or turning to areas that have been previously underexamined (musicality in Canadian cinema anyone?). Liz Czach, British Journal of Canadian Studies
