Canada's best features : : critical essays on 15 Canadian films /

Canada's best features : : critical essays on 15 Canadian films / / Eugene P. Walz.

Long recognized for outstanding National Film Board documentaries and innovative animated movies, Canada has recently emerged from the considerable shadow of the Hollywood elephant with a series of feature films that have captured the attention of audiences around the world. This is the first anthol...

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Superior document:Cross/cultures
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Walz, Gene,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, Boston : : Editions Rodopi B.V.,, [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Cross/cultures.
Physical Description:1 online resource (419 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements and List of Figures
  • Notes on Reference Procedure
  • Introduction
  • 1 CHRISTINE RAMSAY: Canadian narrative cinema from the margins: 'The nation' and masculinity in Goin' Down the Road
  • 2 JIM LEACH: Double vision: Mon oncle Antoine and the cinema of fable
  • 3 TOM McSORLEY: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
  • Or, the anxiety of influence
  • 4 ANDRÉ LOISELLE: Michel Brault's Les Ordres: Documenting the reality of experience and the fiction of history
  • 5 PETER MORRIS: Canadian gothic and Les bons débarras: The night side of the soul
  • 6 BLAINE ALLAN: The Grey Fox afoot in a modern world
  • 7 SUZIE SAU-FONG YOUNG : "Forget Baudrillard": The horrors of 'pleasure' and the pleasures of 'horror' in David Cronenberg's Videodrome
  • 8 BART TESTA
  • The decline of frivolity
  • and Denys Arcand's American Empire
  • 9 BRENDA AUSTIN-SMITH
  • Gender is irrelevant: I've Heard the Mermaids Singing as women's cinema
  • 10 ANGELA STUKATOR: Pictures of age and ageing in Cynthia Scott's The Company of Strangers
  • 11 THOMAS WAUGH: Home is not the place one has left: Or, Masala as 'a multi-cultural culinary treat"?
  • 12 GEORGE TOLES: Drowning for love: Jean-Claude Lauzon's Léolo
  • 13 WILL STRAW: Reinhabiting lost languages: Guy Maddin's Careful
  • 14 CATHERINE RUSSELL: Role playing and the white male imaginary in Atom Egoyan's Exotica
  • 15 ELUNED JONES: Reconstructing the past: Memory's enchantment in The Red Violin
  • JOHN SCHOLES WITH GORDON COLLIER AND GENE WALZ : Canadian film: A select annotated bibliography
  • Contributors.

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