Film and the city : : the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema / / George Melnyk.

• VerfasserIn: Melnyk, George,
• Place / Publishing House: ©2014; Edmonton [Alberta.] : : AU Press,, [2014]; Beaconsfield, Quebec : : Canadian Electronic Library,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 pages) :; illustrations.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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.