Haunting inquiry : : classic NFB documentary, Jacques Derrida, and the curricular otherwise / / by Robert Christopher Nellis.

• VerfasserIn: Nellis, Robert Christopher, 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam ;, Boston ;, Taipei : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

The NFB’s mandate is “[t]o make and distribute films designed to help Canadians in all parts of Canada to understand the ways of living and the problems of Canadians in other parts.” NFB Founding Commissioner John Grierson "It’s only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted. " Canadian poet Earle Birney Haunting Inquiry: Classic NFB Documentary, Jacques Derrida, and the Curricular Otherwise reintroduces significant, if sometimes forgotten, National Film Board of Canada documentaries into contemporary curriculum conversation. Author Robert Christopher Nellis employs an inflection of Derridean deconstruction to mobilize historical, political, and intellectual themes emerging from the films as elliptical, curricular opportunities. The work explores hauntings in and around the documentaries to open toward Others neither fully present nor absent within the Canadian imagination. They remain troublingly illicit, as is the character of haunting… This book’s contribution to the literature of curriculum is a unique and innovative conceptual framework, reintroduction of many classic NFB documentaries, and the use of a productive language and outlook to mobilize fresh perspectives and hopeful possibilities.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Introduction / Robert Christopher Nellis -- A Need for Haunting Inquiry / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Deconstruction Provides a Valuable Influence for the Development of Haunting Inquiry / Robert Christopher Nellis -- A Cleanliness far from “Godliness” / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Churchill’s Island Opens to Instabilities in Bush’s “War on Terror” / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Neighbours Haunts and Troubles the Call to “Love One’s Neighbour” as a Cure for War / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Paul Tomkowicz: Street Railway Switchman Haunts with Invisibility, Spectral Specularity, and Possibilities for Returning the Gaze / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Shying Shyness / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Haunting Inquiry Identifies the Ideology of Modern Scientific Management, Desire’s Implication in Youth Popular Culture, and Beckoning toward the Unheard / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Haunting Inquiry Opens to the Aporetic Mourning of Memory’s Other / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Ellipsis: Discussion and Conclusion (without Conclusion) / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Bibliography and References / Robert Christopher Nellis -- Index / Robert Christopher Nellis.