The Cinema of Canada

The Cinema of Canada
Author: Jerry White
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781904764601

Containing 24 essays, each on a different film, this work provides a fascinating historical account of the development of film and documentary traditions across the diverse national and regional communities in Canada.

Canadian Film and Video

Canadian Film and Video
Author: Loren R. Lerner
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 1862
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0802029884

This extensive bibliography and reference guide is an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, students, and anyone with an interest in Canadian film and video. With over 24,500 entries, of which 10,500 are annotated, it opens up the literature devoted to Canadian film and video, at last making it readily accessible to scholars and researchers. Drawing on both English and French sources, it identifies books, catalogues, government reports, theses, and periodical and newspaper articles from Canadian and non-Canadian publications from the first decade of the twentieth century to 1989. The work is bilingual; descriptive annotations are presented in the language(s) of the original publication. Canadian Film and Video / Film et vidéo canadiens provides an in-depth guide to the work of over 4000 individuals working in film and video and 5000 films and videos. The entries in Volume I cover topics such as film types, the role of government, laws and legislation, censorship, festivals and awards, production and distribution companies, education, cinema buildings, women and film, and video art. A major section covers filmmakers, video artists, cinematographers, actors, producers, and various other film people. Volume II presents an author index, a film and video title index, and a name and subject index. In the tradition of the highly acclaimed publication Art and Architecture in Canada these volumes fill a long-standing need for a comprehensive reference tool for Canadian film and video. This bibliography guides and supports the work of film historians and practitioners, media librarians and visual curators, students and researchers, and members of the general public with an interest in film and video.

Moments of Perception

Moments of Perception
Author: Jim Shedden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781773102030

Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our culture's stories, its memory. Moments of Perceptionis a landmark book. The first history of twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Canadian experimental filmmaking, it maps avant-garde films from the 1950s to the present day, including their contradictions and complexities. Experimental film is political in its very existence, critical of the status quo by definition. In Canada, some of the country's best-known artists took up the moving image as a form of artistic expression, allowing them to explore explicitly political themes. Mike Hoolboom's exposure of the horror of AIDS, Josephine Massarella's concern for the environment, and Joyce Wieland's satiric look at US patriotism are just a few examples of work that contributed to social movementsand provided a means to explore issues of race and gender and LGBTQ2S+ and Indigenous identities. Featuring a major essay on the history of the movement by film scholar Mike Zryd and profiles of key filmmakers by film historian Stephen Broomer and editors Jim Shedden and Barbara Sternberg, Moments of Perceptionoffers a fresh perspective on the ever-evolving history of Canada's experimental film and moving-image media arts.

Rain, Drizzle, Fog

Rain, Drizzle, Fog
Author: Darrell Varga
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2009
Genre: Atlantic Provinces
ISBN: 1552382486

Offers a scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. This book provides a historical overview of film and television in the region, as well as essays on specific topics such as popular TV (""The Trailer Park Boys""), early TV (""The Don Messer Show"") and the work of filmmakers such as Bill MacGillivray and Andrea Dorfman.

Canadian Cultural Poesis

Canadian Cultural Poesis
Author: Garry Sherbert
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 541
Release: 2006-02-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0889204861

Annotation Examining culture as social identity, this collection explores issues such as gender, technology, cultural ethnicity, and regionalism in four general areas: the media, individual and national identity, languages, and cultural dissent.

Canadian Film Technology, 1896-1986

Canadian Film Technology, 1896-1986
Author: Gerald G. Graham
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1989
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780874133479

The first director of technical operations and research for Canada's National Film Board profiles the people and technology that together met the challenges of early documentary filmmaking north of the forty-ninth parallel and discusses the board's emergence as an international model for documentary film units. An Ontario Film Institute Book.

Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.

Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.
Author: Susan C. Boyd
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135909253

Drawing on over 100 films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1912 to 2006, which focus on illegal drugs and their consequences, this book examines representations of discourse about users, traffickers, criminal justice, and treatment.

Reel Time

Reel Time
Author: Robert Morris Seiler
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1926836995

In this authoritative work, Seiler and Seiler argues that the establishment and development of moviegoing and movie exhibition in Prairie Canada is best understood in the context of changing late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century social, economic, and technological developments. From the first entrepreneurs who attempted to lure customers in to movie exhibition halls, to the digital revolution and its impact on moviegoing, Reel Time highlights the pivotal role of amusement venues in shaping the leisure activities of working- and middle-class people across North America.

Creative Industries in Canada

Creative Industries in Canada
Author: Miranda Campbell
Publisher: Canadian Scholars
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2022-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1773383132

Creative Industries in Canada is a foundational text that encourages students to think critically about creative industries within a Canadian context and interrogate the current state and future possibilities of the industry. While much of current creative industries literature concerns the United Kingdom, the United States, and Asia, this text captures the breadth of how Canadian industries are organized and experienced, and how they operate. This ambitious collection aims to guide students through the current landscape of Canadian creative industries through three thematic sections. “Production” collects chapters focused on how national discourses and identities are produced through creative industries and the tensions that exist between policy and media. “Participation” explores how we engage with these industries in different roles: as consumer, creator, policy-maker, and more. “Pedagogies” explores how education impacts inclusion and visibility in creative industries. Truly intersectional, Creative Industries in Canada provides students with practical industry knowledge and frameworks to explore the current state of the field and its future. With a broad application to many undergraduate programs, this text is a must-read resource for those pursuing media studies, arts management, creative and cultural industries studies, communications, and arts and humanities.

One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema

One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema
Author: George Melnyk
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780802084446

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.