Gendering the Nation : : Canadian Women's Cinema / / ed. by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, Janine Marchessault.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Elizabeth,; Armatage, Kay,; Bailey, Cameron,; Banning, Kass,; Bruce, Jean,; Burnett, Ron,; Cagle, Robert L.,; Harcourt, Peter,; Kalafatic, Carol,; Longfellow, Brenda,; Lord, Susan,; Marchessault, Janine,; Nadeau, Chantal,; Nicks, Joan,; Parpart, Lee,; Pick, Zuzana,; Rich, B. Ruby,; Russell, Catherine,
• HerausgeberIn: Armatage, Kay,; Banning, Kass,; Longfellow, Brenda,; Marchessault, Janine,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)

Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God's Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, When Night is Falling), Alanis Obomsawin (My Name Is Kahenttiiosta, Walker), and Micheline Lanctot (Deux Actrices) at festivals throughout the world in recent years attest to the growing international recognition for films made by Canadian women. With Gendering the Nation the editors have produced a definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film-making in Canada. In dialogue with new paradigms for understanding the relationship of cinema with nation and gender, Gendering the Nation seeks to situate women's cinema through the complex optic of national culture. This collection of critical essays employs a variety of frameworks to analyse cinematic practices that range from narrative to documentary to the avant garde.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Gendering the Nation -- Pioneer -- Nell Shipman: A Case of Heroic Femininity -- Documentary -- Studio D’s Imagined Community: From Development (1974) to Realignment (1986-1990) -- Anti-Porn: Soft Issue, Hard World -- Storytelling and Resistance: The Documentary Practice of Alanis Obomsawin -- A Cinema of Duty: The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva -- Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh -- To Document – to Imagine – to Simulate -- Avant-Garde -- Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema: From Introspection To Retrospection -- The Scene Of The Crime: Genealogies Of Absence In The Films Of Patricia Gruben -- Narrative Fiction -- Gender, Landscape, and Colonial Allegories in The Far Shore, Loyalties, and Mouvements du désir -- A Minority on Someone Else’s Continent: Identity, Difference, and the Media in the Films of Patricia Rozema -- Barbaras en Québec: Variations on Identity -- Mourning the Woman’s Film: The Dislocated Spectator of The Company of Strangers -- Fragmenting the Feminine: Aesthetic Memory in Anne Claire Poirier’s Cinema -- Two Plus Two: Contesting The Boundaries Of Identity In Two Films By Micheline Lanctôt -- Cowards, Bullies, and Cadavers: Feminist Re-Mappings of the Passive Male Body in English-Canadian and Quebecois Cinema -- Querying/Queering the Nation -- Playing in the Light: Canadianizing Race and Nation -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index