Gendering the Nation : : Canadian Women's Cinema /

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

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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 Micheli...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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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

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