Challenge for Change
Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
599 pages
978-0-7735-8526-3 (ISBN)
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An examination of the radical politics and cinema of the legendary documentary film program devoted to social change.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
United States
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Digital original
Illustrations
69 b&w photos
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File size
7,72 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-8526-3 (9780773585263)
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Challenge for Change
Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada
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Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada
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02/2010
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Persons
Waugh Thomas:
Thomas Waugh is a writer, programmer, and activist who taught film studies and sexuality at Concordia University from 1976 to 2017. He is the author of The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas.Baker Michael Brendan:
Michael Brendan Baker is professor of film studies at Sheridan College.Thomas Waugh, professor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, is the author of The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. Michael Brendan Baker is Professor of Film Studies in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at Sheridan College. Ezra Winton is a PhD candidate in the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies at Carleton University and the founder of the Cinema Politca Network.
Thomas Waugh is a writer, programmer, and activist who taught film studies and sexuality at Concordia University from 1976 to 2017. He is the author of The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas.Baker Michael Brendan:
Michael Brendan Baker is professor of film studies at Sheridan College.Thomas Waugh, professor in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, is the author of The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. Michael Brendan Baker is Professor of Film Studies in the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences at Sheridan College. Ezra Winton is a PhD candidate in the Department of Journalism and Communication Studies at Carleton University and the founder of the Cinema Politca Network.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword Putting Ideas into the World: A Conversation with Naomi Klein about Starting Conversations with Film
- 1 Introduction: Forty Years Later . a Space for Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle
- PART 1 HISTORICAL SPACES: IN THE HEAT OF THE ACTION
- 2 Grierson and Challenge for Change (1984)
- 3 In the Hands of Citizens: A Video Report (1969)
- 4 Saint-Jérôme: The Experience of a Filmmaker as Social Animator (1968)
- 5 A Voice for Canadian Indians: An Indian Film Crew (1968)
- 6 Fiction Film as Social Animator (1971-72)
- 7 Working with Film: Experiences with a Group of Films about Working Mothers (1975)
- 8 Memo to Michelle about Decentralizing the Means of Production (1972)
- 9 Can We Evaluate Challenge for Change? (1972)
- PART 2 COMMUNITY SPACES: FILMING AT THE MARGINS
- 10 Media for the People: The Canadian Experiments with Film and Video in Community Development (1992)
- 11 Cities for Change: The Housing Challenge
- 12 The En tant que femmes Series, the Film Souris, tu m'inquiètes, and the Imaging of Women's Consciousness in 1970s Quebec
- 13 Le mouton noir: Vidéographe and the Legacy of Société nouvelle
- 14 The Things I Cannot Change: A Revisionary Reading
- PART 3 SCREEN SPACES: SPOTLIGHT ON THE FILMS AND FILMMAKERS
- 15 You Are on Indian Land: Interview with George Stoney (1980)
- 16 Cree Hunters of Mistassini: Challenge for Change and Aboriginal Rights
- 17 "Nation Time" at Kwacha House: The Transitional Modalities of Encounter at Kwacha House - Halifax
- 18 The Films of Maurice Bulbulian: Science and Conscience
- 19 The Curious Case of Wilf: Popular Music in Canadian Documentary
- 20 Portapak as Performance: VTR St-Jacques and VTR Rosedale
- 21 Bonnie Klein, Saul Alinsky, and the American Experience
- 22 Michel Régnier's "Films-Outil"
- 23 Léonard Forest and Acadia
- 24 Filmmaker as History: The Interventionist Films of Martin Duckworth
- 25 Les filles du Roy
- 26 In Praise of Anomaly: Le bonhomme and Rose's House
- 27 Getting Close and Staying Far: Pierre Lasry and the Solo Moms
- 28 Paper Wheat: Alternative Theatre Meets Alternative Filmmaking
- 29 "Would I Ever Like to Work": The "Working Mothers" Films and the Construction of Community
- 30 O, Canada! George Stoney's Challenge (1999)
- PART 4 DISCURSIVE SPACES: THEORIZING CHALLENGE FOR CHANGE/SOCIÉTÉ NOUVELLE
- 31 Société nouvelle: The Challenge to Change in the Alternative Public Sphere (1996)
- 32 Meeting at the Poverty Line: Government Policy, Social Work, and Media Activism in the Challenge for Change Program
- 33 Amateur Video and the Challenge for Change (1995)
- 34 Video: The Politics of Culture and Community (1996)
- 35 Winds and Things: Towards a Reassessment of the Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle Legacy
- 36 "If a Revolution Is Screened and No One Is There to See It, Does It Make a Sound?" The Politics of Distribution and Counterpublics
- PART 5 CONCLUSION: CONTEMPORARY REINCARNATIONS
- 37 Filmmaker-in-Residence: The Digital Grandchild of Challenge for Change
- 38 Thirty Years and Twelve Thousand Miles Away ...
- Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle: The Complete Filmography
- Comprehensive Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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