Working on Screen : : Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema / / ed. by Malek Khouri, Darrell Varga.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beaty, Bart,; Forsyth, Scott,; Francis, Margot,; Frank, David,; Khouri, Malek,; Kispal-Kovacs, Joseph,; Loiselle, André,; Longfellow, Brenda,; Lord, Susan,; McCullough, John,; Sullivan, Rebecca,; Urquhart, Peter,; Varga, Darrell,
• HerausgeberIn: Khouri, Malek,; Varga, Darrell,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

As themes in film studies literature, work and the working class have long occupied a peripheral place in the evaluation of Canadian cinema, often set aside in the critical literature for the sake of a unifying narrative that assumes a division between Québécois and English Canada's film production, a social-realist documentary aesthetic, and what might be called a 'younger brother' relationship with the United States.In Working on Screen, contributors examine representations of socio-economic class across the spectrum of Canadian film, video, and television, covering a wide range of class-related topics and dealing with them as they intersect with history, political activism, globalization, feminism, queer rights, masculinity, regional marginalization, cinematic realism, and Canadian nationalism.Of concern in this collection are the daily lives and struggles of working people and the ways in which the representation of the experience of class in film fosters or marginalizes a progressive engagement with history, politics, and societies around the world. Working on Screen thus expands the scholarly debates on the concept of national cinema and builds on the rich, formative efforts of Canadian cultural criticism that held dear the need for cultural autonomy. Contributors:Bart BeatyScott ForsythMargot Francis David FrankMalek KhouriJoseph Kispal-KovacsAndre LoiselleBrenda LongfellowSusan LordJohn McCulloughRebecca SullivanPeter Urquhart Darrell VargaThomas Waugh

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Working on Screen -- PART ONE: Workers, History, and Historiography -- 1. In Search of the Canadian Labour Film -- 2. Communists, Class, and Culture in Canada -- 3. The Image of the 'People' in the CBC's Canada: A People's History -- PART TWO: Work, Gender, and Sexuality -- 4. Work It Girl! Sex, Labour, and Nationalism in Valérie -- 5. Not Playing, Working: Class, Masculinity, and Nation in the Canadian Hockey Film -- 6. Other-ing the Worker in Canadian 'Gay Cinema': Thom Fitzgerald's The Hanging Garden -- 7. Whose Museum Is It, Anyway? Discourses of Resistance in the Adaptation of The Glace Bay Miners' Museum into Margaret's Museum -- PART THREE: Dirty Work -- 8. Activating History: Sara Diamond and the Women's Labour History Project -- 9. Dirty Laundry: Re-imagining the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Construction of the Nation -- PART FOUR: Working on National Cinema -- 10. Look like a Worker and Act like a Worker: Stereotypical Representations of the Working Class in Quebec Fiction Feature Films -- 11. Inscriptions of Class and Nationalism in Canadian 'Realist' Cinema: Final Offer and Canada's Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks -- 12. Rude and the Representation of Class Relations in Canadian Film -- 13. Counter Narratives, Class Politics, and Metropolitan Dystopias: Representations of Globalization in Maelström, waydowntown, and La moitié gauche du frigo -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors