Working on Screen : : Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema /

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

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 produc...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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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

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