Film and the city : : the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema / / George Melnyk.
Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls "the nationalist-realist project," a document...
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Melnyk, George, author. Film and the city : the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema / George Melnyk. 1st ed. Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press, 2014. 2014 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations. text txt computer c online resource cr text file rda English Introduction : The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema -- The City of Faith : Navigating Piety in Arcand's Jésus de Montréal (1989) -- The City of Dreams : The Sexual Self in Lauzon's Léolo (1992) -- The Generderd City : Feminism in Rozema's Desperanto (1991), Pool's Rispondetemi (1991), and Villeneuve's Maelström (2000) -- The City Made Flesh : The Embodied Other in Lepage's Le Confessionnal (1995) and Egoyan's Exotica (1994) -- The Diasporic City : Postcolonialism, Hybridity, and Transnationality in Virgo's Rude (1995) and Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood (2001) -- The City of Transgressive Desires : Melodramatic Absurdity in Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and My Winnipeg (2007) -- The City of Eternal Youth : Capitalism, Consumerism, and Generation in Burns's waydowntown (2000) and Radiant City (2006) -- The City of Disfunction : Race and Relations in Vancouver from Shum's Double Happiness (1994) to Sweeney's Last Wedding (2001) and McDonald's The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004) -- Conclusion : National Identity and the Urban Imagination. Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls "the nationalist-realist project," a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of Anglo-centrism has been challenged by francophone and First Nations perspectives and the character of cities altered by a continued influx of immigrants and the development of cities as economic and technological centers. No longer primarily defined through the lens of rural nostalgia, Canadian urban identity is instead polyphonic, diverse, constructed through multiple discourses and mediums, an exchange rather than a strict orientation. Taking on the urban as setting and subject, filmmakers are ideally poised to create and reflect multiple versions of a single city. Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand's Je?sus de Montre?al (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon's Le?olo (1992), Mina Shum's Double Happiness (1994), Cle?ment Virgo's Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and "urbanity"--the totality of urban culture and life. Drawing on film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation in Canadian studies, Melnyk considers how filmmakers, films, and urban audiences experience, represent, and interpret urban spatiality, visuality, and orality. In this way, Film and the City argues that Canadian narrative film of the postmodern period has aided in articulating a new national identity. Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Motion pictures Canada History. City and town life in motion pictures. Cities and towns in motion pictures. 1-306-80832-4 1-927356-59-8 |
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Melnyk, George, Film and the city : the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema / Introduction : The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema -- The City of Faith : Navigating Piety in Arcand's Jésus de Montréal (1989) -- The City of Dreams : The Sexual Self in Lauzon's Léolo (1992) -- The Generderd City : Feminism in Rozema's Desperanto (1991), Pool's Rispondetemi (1991), and Villeneuve's Maelström (2000) -- The City Made Flesh : The Embodied Other in Lepage's Le Confessionnal (1995) and Egoyan's Exotica (1994) -- The Diasporic City : Postcolonialism, Hybridity, and Transnationality in Virgo's Rude (1995) and Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood (2001) -- The City of Transgressive Desires : Melodramatic Absurdity in Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and My Winnipeg (2007) -- The City of Eternal Youth : Capitalism, Consumerism, and Generation in Burns's waydowntown (2000) and Radiant City (2006) -- The City of Disfunction : Race and Relations in Vancouver from Shum's Double Happiness (1994) to Sweeney's Last Wedding (2001) and McDonald's The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004) -- Conclusion : National Identity and the Urban Imagination. |
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Introduction : The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema -- The City of Faith : Navigating Piety in Arcand's Jésus de Montréal (1989) -- The City of Dreams : The Sexual Self in Lauzon's Léolo (1992) -- The Generderd City : Feminism in Rozema's Desperanto (1991), Pool's Rispondetemi (1991), and Villeneuve's Maelström (2000) -- The City Made Flesh : The Embodied Other in Lepage's Le Confessionnal (1995) and Egoyan's Exotica (1994) -- The Diasporic City : Postcolonialism, Hybridity, and Transnationality in Virgo's Rude (1995) and Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood (2001) -- The City of Transgressive Desires : Melodramatic Absurdity in Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and My Winnipeg (2007) -- The City of Eternal Youth : Capitalism, Consumerism, and Generation in Burns's waydowntown (2000) and Radiant City (2006) -- The City of Disfunction : Race and Relations in Vancouver from Shum's Double Happiness (1994) to Sweeney's Last Wedding (2001) and McDonald's The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004) -- Conclusion : National Identity and the Urban Imagination. |
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