Film and the city : the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema

Film and the city the urban imaginary in Canadian cinema

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Melnyk, George, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press 2014.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Motion pictures > Canada > History.
City and town life in motion pictures.
Cities and towns in motion pictures.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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