Gendering the Nation
Canadian Women's Cinema
Will be published approx. on 26. June 1999
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-0-8020-4120-3 (ISBN)
Description
Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God's Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, When Night is Falling), Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance), and Micheline Lanctot (Deux actrices) at festivals throughout the world in recent years attest to the growing international recognition for films made by Canadian women. With Gendering the Nation the editors have produced a definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film-making in Canada. In dialogue with new paradigms for understanding the relationship of cinema with nation and gender, Gendering the Nation seeks to situate women's cinema through the complex optic of national culture. This collection of critical essays employs a variety of frameworks to analyse cinematic practices that range from narrative to documentary to the avant-garde.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
With printed dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
672 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8020-4120-3 (9780802041203)
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Persons
Kay Armatage is Chair, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, University of Toronto.
Kass Banning teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto.
Brenda Longfellow is a filmmaker and an associate professor at Atkinson College, York University.
Janine Marchessault is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media, and Globalization in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University.
Kass Banning teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto.
Brenda Longfellow is a filmmaker and an associate professor at Atkinson College, York University.
Janine Marchessault is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media, and Globalization in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University.
Content
Gendering the nation / Kay Armatage ... [et al.] -- Nell Shipman : a case of heroic femininity / Kay Armatage -- Studio D's imagined community : from development (1974) to realignment (1986-1990) / Elizabeth Anderson -- Anti-porn : soft issue, hard world/ B. Ruby Rich -- Storytelling and resistance : the documentary practice of Alanis Obomsawin / Zuzana Pick -- A cinema of duty : the films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva / Cameron Bailey -- Keepers of the power : story as covenant in the films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh / Carol Kalafatic -- To document, to imagine, to simulate / Ron Burnett -- Feminist avant-garde cinema : from introspection to retrospection / Janine Marchessault -- The scene of the crime : genealogies of absence in the films of Patricia Gruben / Susan Lord -- Gender, landscape, and colonial allegories in The far shore, Loyalties, and Mouvements du d esir / Brenda Longfellow -- A minority on someone else's continent : identity, difference, and the media in the films of Patricia Rozema / Robert L. Cagle -- Barbaras en Qu ebec : variations on identity / Chantal Nadeau -- Mourning the woman's film : the dislocated spectator of The company of strangers / Catherine Russell -- Fragmenting the feminine : aesthetic memory in Anne Claire Poirier's cinema / Joan Nicks -- Two plus two : contesting the boundaries of identity in two films by Micheline Lanctaot / Peter Harcourt -- Cowards, bullies, and cadavers : feminist re-mappings of the passive male body in English-Canadian andQu eb ecois cinema / Lee Parpart -- Querying/queering the nation / Jean Bruce -- Playing in the light : canadianizing race and nation / Kass Banning.