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…”