Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids overcomes a long-standing impasse about what films may be credibly said to document. Here they document not "reality" but social images preserved over time - the "NFB Society"--An evo…
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Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema - this book explores exactly that. Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989 overcomes a long-standing imp…
"The essays in North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 examine the state of Canadian film during a period of critical change. Their focus ranges from the conventional cinema to the avant garde, NFB documentaries to DIY videotapes." "This comprehensive volume pres…
The essays in this collection survey accomplishments in Canadian film over the last two decades, from conventional film to the avant-garde. Featuring focal essays on a number of film-makers plus discussions of institutions, history, and policy, this book is intended for students…
"The essays in North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 examine the state of Canadian film during a period of critical change. Their focus ranges from the conventional cinema to the avant garde, NFB documentaries to DIY videotapes." "This comprehensive volume pres…
"The essays in North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 examine the state of Canadian film during a period of critical change. Their focus ranges from the conventional cinema to the avant garde, NFB documentaries to DIY videotapes." "This comprehensive volume pres…
John Walker's Passage
by Varga, Darrell, Toronto International Film Festival Group
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"John Walker is one of Canada's most prolific and important documentary filmmakers and is known for his many thoughtful, personally inflected films. His masterwork, Passage, centres on Sir John Franklin's failed expedition to find the final link of the Northwest Passage connecti…
Varga illuminates how the film can be viewed through the lens of Harold Innis's theories of communication and culture, opening up the work of this great Canadian political economist to film studies.
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 Cana…
