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Author: Peter Morris Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 9780773503236 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 372
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Embattled Shadows is the first and only history of Canadian film making in the years before the establishment of the National Film Board of Canada in 1939. It begins with an entertaining account of the travelling showmen who brought the movies to large and small communities across the country, and discusses the films produced in Canada before World War I. In the atmosphere of heightened nationalism during and after the war there was a determined attempt to establish a film industry. Peter Morris chronicles its occasional successes while, at the same time, examining the reasons behind its ultimate failure -- using the colourful career of the independent producer Ernest Shipman ("Ten Percent Ernie") as a particular reference. He goes on to describe the establishment and eventual collapse of both the federal and Ontario governments' Motion Picture Bureaus. By the Thirties, with the connivance of the Canadian government, Canadian feature film production had deteriorated to the point of turning out "quota" films from the Hollywood mould.
Author: Oeter Morris Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 0773560726 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 361
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Other Canadian film producers concentrated their efforts on short productions, mostly in government or commercial companies such as Associated Screen News of Montreal. The works of Gordon Spalding, Bill Oliver, and Albert Tessier are discussed in this context. Morris concludes with the founding of the National Film Board which, under the dynamic guidance of John Grierson, was to breathe new life into a moribund industry. In a postscript Morris explores some of the reasons for the unique development of Canadian film making -- particularly its use of natural settings and documentary when virtually the rest of the world's industry was following the Hollywood pattern of studio location and fictional plots -- and examines the relationship of the early industry to later developments in Canadian film making. At a time when Canada's cultural industries are struggling to survive in the wake of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States and under the threat of Free Trade with Mexico, Embattled Shadows makes essential reading.
Author: Manjunath Pendakur Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814319994 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 340
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A history of the Canadian film industry from its inception to 1980s, providing a chronological record of the conflicting priorities between American capital, which seeks to shape the Canadian film industry to its own image, and Canada's stated goal, which is to serve the Canadian people with films autonomously conceived, produced, and exhibited.
Author: Clarence Karr Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 9780773521094 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
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From the 1890s through the 1920s, the best-selling fiction of Ralph Connor, Robert Stead, Nellie McClung, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and Arthur Stringer was internationally recognized. In this intriguing cultural history of the conception, production, and reception of popular fiction, Clarence Karr challenges the common assumption that best sellers are a conservative cultural influence, reflecting and promoting traditional values. By focusing on a society and its cultural leaders at a period when they were coming to grips with modernity, Karr provides a new perspective on popular culture and the interaction between readers and popular authors.
Author: David L. Pike Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442698322 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 393
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Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a lively, personal, and accessible history of the most influential filmmakers and movements of both Anglo-Canadian and Quebecois cinema, from popular movies to art film and everything in between. Along with in-depth studies of key directors, including David Cronenberg, Patricia Rozema and Denys Arcand, Jean-Claude Lauzon, Robert Lepage, Léa Pool, Atom Egoyan, and Guy Maddin, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s reflects on major themes and genres and explores the regional and cultural diversity of the period. Pike positions Canadian filmmaking at the frontlines of a profound cinematic transformation in the age of global media and presents fresh perspectives on both its local and international contexts. Making a significant advance in the study of the film industry of the period, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s is also an ideal text for students, researchers, and Canadian film enthusiasts.
Author: J.M. Madden Publisher: J.M. Madden ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 163
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Former Navy SEAL Wyatt Thorn took the fall for a man he thought was his friend. But he was betrayed, charged with unspeakable crimes and tried by a court of his peers, where he was booted from the SEALs. Now Wyatt is hiding on this lonely mountain, trying to build a new way of life. When he receives a call from a mysterious woman, he takes it with a grain of salt. He's been offered jobs with big payoffs before, because he'd been a damn good SEAL. Then she starts throwing out information that NO ONE should know about what went on in the desert. The man who betrayed him is dead, and the man's ex-wife, Rowan, is missing. It's a sucker punch to the gut, because in the depths of the night, he dreams of beautiful Rowan, the only person who didn't look at him like a criminal. He has a chance to clear his name and save her life, but it's going to come at a terrible emotional cost, for them both. Assuming she's still alive...
Author: George Melnyk Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 9780802084446 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 378
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Melnyk argues passionately that Canadian cinema has never been a singular entity, but has continued to speak in the languages and in the voices of Canada's diverse population.
Author: David H. Flaherty Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP ISBN: 9780773511200 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 388
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Canadians have demonstrated a remarkable sense of unity about protection of their "cultural industries" during the continuing national debate over free trade. This study of the effect of American popular culture on Canada is therefore particularly relevant.
Author: Janine Marchessault Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442691786 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 616
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As a medium, film is constantly evolving both in form and in content. Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema considers the shift from traditional cinema to new frontiers of interactive, performative, and networked media. Using the theories of Marshall McLuhan and Gilles Deleuze as a starting point, renowned scholars from the fields of film theory, communication studies, cultural studies, and new media theory explore the ways in which digital technology is transforming contemporary visual culture. The essays consider a series of questions: What constitutes the "new" in new media? How are digital aesthetics different from film aesthetics? What new forms of spectatorship and storytelling, political community, and commodity production are being enabled through the digital media? Using Gene Youngblood's 1970 book Expanded Cinema as an anchor for the volume, Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema understands the digital not simply as a technological form, but also as an experience of space and time that is tied to capitalism. This important collection is unique in framing a range of social justice issues with aesthetic theories of new digital screen culture that will appeal to scholars and multimedia artists prepared to break new ground.
Author: Joan Nicks Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN: 1554587603 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 408
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Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture closely examines some of the myriad forms of popular culture in the Niagara region of Canada. Essays consider common assumptions and definitions of what popular culture is and seek to determine whether broad theories of popular culture can explain or make sense of localized instances of popular culture and the cultural experiences of people in their daily lives. Among the many topics covered are local bicycle parades and war memorials, cooking and wine culture, radio and movie-going, music stores and music scenes, tourist sites, and blackface minstrel shows. The authors approach their subjects from a variety of critical and historical perspectives and employ a range of methodologies that includes cultural studies, textual analysis, archival research, and participant interviews. Altogether, Covering Niagara provides a richly diverse mapping of the popular culture of a particular area of Canada and demonstrates the complexities of everyday culture.
Author: Peter Morris
Author: Oeter Morris
Author: Manjunath Pendakur
Author: Clarence Karr
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Author: David L. Pike
Author: J.M. Madden
Author: George Melnyk
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Author: Janine Marchessault
Author: Joan Nicks