Candid Eyes : : Essays on Canadian Documentaries / / ed. by Jim Leach, Jeannette Sloniowski.

Beginning in 1922, when Robert Flaherty filmed 'Nanook of the North' in Canada's Arctic, and encouraged by John Grierson and the federal government in 1939 when they created the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), documentaries have dominated Canada's film production and, more t...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Geography and Myth in Paul Tomkowicz: Coordinates of National Identity
  • The Days before Christmas and the Days before That
  • From Obscurity in Ottawa to Fame in Freedomland: Lonely Boy and the Cultural Meaning of Paul Anka
  • Images and Information: The Dialogic Structure of Bûcherons de la Manouane by Arthur Lamothe
  • Linking Community Renewal to National Identity: The Filmmakers' Role in Pour la suite du monde
  • Dark Satanic Mills: Denys Arcand's On est au coton
  • Performing the Master Narratives: Michael Rubbo's Waiting for Fidel
  • Hard Film to Define - Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry
  • Not a Love Story: A Film about Pornography - Tabloid Rhetoric in Interventionist Documentary
  • Voyage en Amérique avec un cheval emprunté: A Journey of the Mind
  • Queer Cinema at the NFB: The 'Strange Case' of Forbidden Love
  • 'This Land Is Ours' - Storytelling and History in Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
  • Hyperbolic Masculinity and the Ironic Gaze in Project Grizzly
  • Sympathetic Understanding in Tu as crié Let Me Go
  • Filmography
  • Works Cited
  • Index of Film Titles
  • General Index