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Canadian cinema in the new millennium

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25699
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
06.3 C23c
Responsibility
Edited by Lee Carruthers and Charles Tepperman
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Film making
Films
Motion picture
Canada
History
Abstract
At the turn of the millennium Canadian cinema appeared to have reached an apex of aesthetic and commercial transformation. Domestic filmmaking has since declined in visibility: the sense of celebrity once associated with independent directors has diminished, projects garner less critical attention, and concepts that made late-twentieth-century Canadian film legible have been reconsidered or displaced. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium examines this dramatic transformation and revitalizes our engagement with Canadian cinema in the contemporary moment, presenting focused case studies of films and filmmakers and contextual studies of Canadian film policy, labour, and film festivals. Contributors trace key developments since 2000, including the renouveau or Quebec New Wave, Indigenous filmmaking, i-docs, and diasporic experimental filmmaking. Reflecting the way film in Canada mediates multiple cultures, forging new affinities among anglophone, francophone, and Indigenous-language examples, this book engages familiar figures, such as Denis Villeneuve, Xavier Dolan, Sarah Polley, and Guy Maddin, in the same breath as small-budget independent films, documentaries, and experimental works that have emerged in the Canadian scene. Fueled by close attention to the films themselves and a desire to develop new scholarly approaches, Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium models a renewed commitment to keeping a vibrant conversation about Canadian cinema alive.-Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction: Towards a renewed critical optics for contemporary Canadian cinema -- PART ONE: FEATURE FILMS AND FILMMAKERS -- 1 Speaking across borders: Xavier Dolan and the transnationalism of contemporary auteur cinema in Quebec / Robinson, Ian -- 2 An equivocal auteur: gauging style and substance in the films of Denis Villeneuve / Carruthers, Ian -- 3 A "momentary melancholy": female desire and the promise of happiness in the cinema of Sarah Polley / Horeck, Tanya -- 4 Indigenous women's cinema in Quebec: the works and words of Mohawk filmmaker Sonia Bonspille Boileau / Bertrand, Karine -- 5 Le cine´ma a` l'estomac: Denis Co^te´ and the new wave of Quebec cinema (2004-19) / Sirois-Trahan, Jean-Pierre -- 6 Fluid privilege: reading "Canadian" water in wet bum (2014) and sleeping giant (2015) / Vanderburgh, Jennifer -- 7 Toronto's new diy filmmakers / Davidson, David -- 8 Northern frights: Canadian horror in the twenty-first century / Leeder, Murray -- PART TWO: DOCUMENTARY AND EXPERIMENTAL FILMMAKING -- 9 Beauty day and the crises of self-directed work / Meneghetti, Mike -- 10 Mythologizing Manitoba: the negated truth of my Winnipeg / Siegel, Miriam and Keil, Charlie -- 11 Indigenizing the archive: souvenir and the NFB / Roberts, Gillian -- 12 I-doc and my-doc: bear 71 and highrise as Canadian documentaries / Feldman, Seth -- 13 Diasporic sights: trauma and representation in recent Canadian poetic cinema / Browne, Dan -- 14 dominique t. skoltz and new states of cinematic matter / Wilmink, Melanie -- PART THREE: CANADIAN FILM CONTEXTS, FESTIVALS, AND INDUSTRIES -- 15 A taxing culture: reconsidering the service production / Acland, Charles R. -- 16 collective action! unions in the Canadian film and television industry / Coles, Amanda -- 17 Making room: international co-productions and Canadian national cinema / Lester, Peter -- 18 Troubling Toronto queer festivals: transgressions in and of queer counterpublics / Mitchell, Aimee -- 19 From showcase to lightbox: programming the national on the festival circuit / Burgess, Diane
ISBN
9780228015949
Accession Number
P2023.08
Call Number
06.3 C23c
Collection
Archives Library
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Screening nature and nation : the environmental documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25684
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Clemens, Michael D.
Publisher
Athabasca, AB : AU Press
Call Number
06.3 C59s
Author
Clemens, Michael D.
Publisher
Athabasca, AB : AU Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
viii, 224 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Films
Film making
National Film Board of Canada
Canada
History
Nature
Abstract
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) is an institution profoundly woven into the fabric of Canadian culture. The documentaries they produced not only influenced cinematic language, but their stunning portrayals of the landscape has shaped our perception of the environment and our place in it. Screening Nature and Nation examines how Canadians have engaged with these films and how the depictions of the land and its people have reflected the prevailing attitudes of the times.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Filming like a state -- Visions of the North -- Cry of the wild -- Challenge for change.
ISBN
9781771993357
Accession Number
P2023.01
Call Number
06.3 C59s
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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A stunning backdrop : Alberta in the movies, 1917-1960

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25734
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Graham, Mary
Publisher
Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
Call Number
06.3 G76a
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Author
Graham, Mary
Publisher
Calgary, AB : Bighorn Books, an imprint of University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
xi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 28 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Film making
Canadian Rockies
History of Alberta
History-Canada
Indigenous
Abstract
The unconventional, untold story of Alberta's film history, defined by the terrible beautify of its pristine landscape, surprisingly important to Hollywood, and recaptured in lost or ignored Indigenous perspectives and stories. Alberta's magnificent landscape has served as a popular location for filmmakers since the dawn of the movie industry. For film pioneers, Alberta embodied the myth of the Great Northwest, a primeval mountain wilderness and the last western frontier. In turn, Canadian entrepreneurs were eager for American studios to drape Alberta landscape across the backdrop of their movies, an advertisement without equal. A Stunning Backdrop is the untold story of six rollicking decades of filmmaking in Alberta. Mary Graham draws on twelve years of exhaustive research to reveal a film history like no other, illuminating the deep importance of the province to Hollywood. She explores the often friendly partnerships between American filmmakers and Indigenous communities, particularly the Stoney Nakoda, that provided economic opportunities and, in many cases, allowed them to retain religious and cultural practices banned by the Canadian government. Beautifully illustrated with archival photography and featuring century-old set stills alongside photographs of the locations as they appear today, by Jean Becq, Solomon Chiniquay, Jeff Wallace, George Webber, and Paul Zizka, A Stunning Backdrop is the fascinating, often surprising, always unconventional story of film in a province whose rugged, compelling, multifarious, terribly beautiful landscape continues to inspire filmmakers and audiences around the world.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Early Alberta movie landscapes today -- Into the (civilized) wilds -- Snow! snow! snow! -- A rabble rouser and a dreamer -- Father of the western -- In the shadow of Castle Mountain -- Royalty, great chiefs, ranches, and rodeos -- The joy girl and others of a gregarious nature -- Mountain men -- Building the railway, movie style -- War and propaganda -- Out of the coma -- Rodeo westerns of the atomic age -- Selling sex and nostalgia -- Making Rocky Mountain movie magic -- The power of revision -- List of movies made in Alberta, 1917-1960
Notes
Mary Graham received the Whyte Museum's Lillian Agnes Jones Fellowship, 2021-2022.
ISBN
9781773853932
Accession Number
P2023.20
Call Number
06.3 G76a
Collection
Archives Library
Websites
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Indigenous celebrity : entanglements with fame

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25509
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Call Number
07.2 A3i
Responsibility
Edited by Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes
Publisher
Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Film making
Films
Abstract
Indigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular forms of recognition, critically recasting the lens through which we understand Indigenous people's entanglements with celebrity. It presents a wide range of essays that explore the theoretical, material, social, cultural, and political impacts of celebrity on and for Indigenous people. It questions and critiques the whitestream concept of celebrity and the very juxtaposition of "Indigenous" and "celebrity" and casts a critical lens on celebrity culture's impact on Indigenous people. Indigenous people who willingly engage with celebrity culture, or are drawn up into it, enter into a complex terrain of social relations informed by layered dimensions of colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia/transphobia, and classism. Yet this reductive framing of celebrity does not account for the ways that Indigenous people's own worldviews inform Indigenous engagement with celebrity culture--or rather, popular social and cultural forms of recognition. Indigenous Celebrity reorients conversations on Indigenous celebrity towards understanding how Indigenous people draw from nation-specific processes of respect and recognition while at the same time navigating external assumptions and expectations. This collection examines the relationship of Indigenous people to the concept of celebrity in past, present, and ongoing contexts, identifying commonalities, tensions, and possibilities. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Introduction: Indigeneity, celebrity, and fame: Accounting for colonialism / Jennifer Adese and Robert Alexander Innes ; Mino-Waawiindaganeziwin: What does Indigenous celebrity mean within Anishinaabeg contexts? / Renee E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe Bedard ; Empowering voices from the past: The playing experiences of retired pasifika rugby league athletes in Australia / David Lakisa, Katerina Teaiwa, Daryl Adair, and Tracy Taylor ; My mom, The ‘military mohawk princess’: Kahntinetha Horn through the lens of Indigenous female celebrity / Kahente Horn-Miller ; Indigenous activism and celebrity: Negotiating access, inclusion, and the politics of humility / Jonathon G. Hill and Virginia McLaurin ; Indigenous activism and celebrity: Negotiating access, expectation, and the politics of humility / Jonathan G. Hill and Virginia McLaurin ; Rags-to-riches and other fairytales: Indigenous celebrity in Australia 1950-80 / Karen Fox ; “Pretty boy” Trudeau vs. the “Algonquin Agitator”: Hitting the ropes of Canadian colonialist masculinities / Kim Anderson and Brendan Hokowhitu ; Famous “last” speakers: Celebrity and erasure in media coverage of Indigenous language endangerment / Jenny L. Davis ; Celebrity in Absentia: Situating the Indigenous people of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian social imaginary / Aadita Chaudhury ; Marvin Rainwater and “the pale faced Indian”: How cover songs appropriated a story of cultural appropriation / Christina Giacona ; Collectivity as Indigenous anti-celebrity: Global Indigeneity and the Indigenous rights movement / Sheryl Lightfoot ; Makings, meanings, and recognitions: The stuff of Anishinaabe stars / w. C. Sy.
ISBN
9780887559068
Accession Number
P2022.02
Call Number
07.2 A3i
Collection
Archives Library
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Picturing indians : native Americans in film, 1941-1960

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25516
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Black, Liza
Publisher
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska
Call Number
07.2 B57p
Author
Black, Liza
Publisher
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
xxi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous
Film making
History
Colonialism
Abstract
Liza Black critically examines the inner workings of post-World War II American films and production studios, which cast American Indian extras and actors as Native people, forcing them to come face-to-face with mainstream representations of "Indianness." -- From by publisher
Contents
"Just Like a Snake You'll Be Crawling in Your Own Shit": American Indians and White Narcissism ; "Indians Agree to Perform and Act as Directed": Urban Indian (and Non-Indian) Actors ; "Not Desired by You for Photographing": The Labor of American Indian (and Non-Indian) Extras ; "White May Be More Than Skin Deep": Whites in Redface ; "A Bit Thick": The Transformation of Indians into Movie Indians ; "Dig Up a Good Indian Historian": The Search for Authenticity
ISBN
9780803296800
Accession Number
P2022.02
Call Number
07.2 B57p
Collection
Archives Library
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That never happened : Canada's first national internment operations

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25003
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2017
Author
Boyko, Ryan
Cofini, Diana
Publisher
Orangeville, ON : McIntyre Media
Call Number
08.1 B63t DVD
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Author
Boyko, Ryan
Cofini, Diana
Publisher
Orangeville, ON : McIntyre Media
Published Date
2017
Physical Description
1 videodisc (52 min.) : sound, colour and black and white
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Canada
World War I
World War, 1914-1918
World Wars
Internment Camps
Film making
Films
Abstract
Follows the story of Canada's first national internment operations between 1914 and 1920, when over 88,000 people were forced to register and more than 8,500 were wrongfully imprisoned in internment camps across Canada, not for anything they had done but because of where they came from. In 1954, the public records were destroyed.
Notes
Director of photography, Oleksandr Kryshtalovych ; editor, Peter Chrapka ; music by Evan MacDonald.
Accession Number
2019.113
Call Number
08.1 B63t DVD
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Amistice Films
Websites
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Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2016
Author
Inarritu, Alejandro Gonzalez (director)
Smith, Mark L. (screenwriter)
DiCaprio, Leonardo (actor)
Hardy, Tom (actor)
Publisher
Los Angeles, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Call Number
06.3 R32 DVD
  1 website  
Author
Inarritu, Alejandro Gonzalez (director)
Smith, Mark L. (screenwriter)
DiCaprio, Leonardo (actor)
Hardy, Tom (actor)
Responsibility
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Mark L. Smith
Leonardo DiCaprio
Tom Hardy
Publisher
Los Angeles, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Films
Film making
Bears
Hunting
Abstract
Inspired by true events, during an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a relentless pursuit to live and find redemption.
Accession Number
P2019-31
Call Number
06.3 R32 DVD
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
The Revenant on IMDb
Websites
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The Camps, 1914-1920 : the complete series

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24990
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2016
Author
Boyko, Ryan (producer, screewriter, director)
Publisher
[Hamilton, Ontario] : Armistice Films
Call Number
06.3 C14 DVD
  1 website  
Author
Boyko, Ryan (producer, screewriter, director)
Responsibility
Ryan Boyko (producer, screenwriter, director)
Publisher
[Hamilton, Ontario] : Armistice Films
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
1 videodisc : sound, colour with black and white sequences
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Films
Film making
Internment Camps
World War I
World War, 1914-1918
Ukrainians
Germany
Prisoner of war (POW)
Prisons
Banff
Castle Mountain
Castle Mountain Internment Camp
Cave and Basin
Abstract
The Camps" is a cross-Canada journey into the past, present and future. In the fall of 2015, the crew of Armistice Films embarked upon an historical journey. Armed with professional cinema cameras, four film professionals set out to document the remains of all of the internment camps used during Canada's First National Internment Operations from 1914 to 1920. At the internment sites, the crew interviewed a variety of individuals who have either a direct or indirect tie to the Internment Operations. They interviewed several internee descendants, including those of Ukrainian, German and Hungarian descent. They interviewed scholars, political leaders, activists, an RCMP officer, the Chief of Brandon Police Services, The Chief of The Batchewana First Nation, Museum Curators, a former Park Warden and Sculptor John Boxtel. In "The Camps", we hear three languages English, French (including 2 fully Francophone episodes) and Ukrainian, and see equal representation of both men and women. ... They address the individual camp and how each interview subject is connected to the history the audience is learning about, and why it is still relevant today."--Ukrainian Canadian Congress website.
Contents
Season 1. Mara Lake ; Vernon ; Lethbridge ; Toronto ; Baton ; Morrissey ; Valcarter ; Mt. Revelstoke ; Yoho National Park ; Nanaimo ; Edgewood ; Amherst ; Petawawa ; Niagara Falls ; Munson ; Beauport -- Season 2. Ferme ; Sault Ste. Marie ; Kapuskasing ; Paul Grod ; Halifax ; Jasper ; Winnipeg ; Monashee ; Banff ; Castle Mountain ; Montreal ; Kingston ; Boxtel ; Inky Mark ; Andrew Hladyshevsky ; Spirit Lake.
Notes
Feature Banff and Castle Mountain internment camps
Accession Number
P2019.31
Call Number
06.3 C14 DVD
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
The Camps on IMDb
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The Eiger sanction

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24983
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2015
Publisher
[Solna] : Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Nordic
Call Number
06.3 Ei4 DVD
  1 website  
Responsibility
Clint Eastwood (actor, director)
Warren Murphy (screenplay)
George Kennedy (actor)
Vonetta McGee (actor)
Publisher
[Solna] : Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Nordic
Published Date
2015
Physical Description
1 videodisc (129min.) : sound, color
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Films
Film making
Scott, Charles (Chic)
Switzerland
Abstract
"Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this international intrigue action thriller that takes place on the Swiss Alps. Hemlock,m a retired professional assassin (Eastwood) who has turned toward a calmer pursuit of art collection, is suddely forced out of retirement to hunt a deadly double agent who murdered a close friend. The hunt takes Eastwood on a breathtaking journey up the Swiss Alps with a team of mountain climbers - one of whom is the man he seeks, though his identity is as yet unknown. This top-notch action film, based on the novel by Trevanian, features some of the most exciting mountain climbing sequences ever filmed" (from back of DVD)
Notes
Chic Scott is one of the climbers
Accession Number
P2019-31
Call Number
06.3 Ei4 DVD
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
The Eiger Sanction on IMDb
Websites
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Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those terrible things about me?

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24978
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Published Date
2014
Author
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Publisher
Hollywood, California : Paramount Pictures Corporation
Edition
Standard edition, widescreen version.
Call Number
06.3 W62 DVD
Author
Paramount Pictures Corporation
Edition
Standard edition, widescreen version.
Publisher
Hollywood, California : Paramount Pictures Corporation
Published Date
2014
Physical Description
1 videodisc (107 min.) : DVD video, sound, color
Medium
Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)
Subjects
Film making
Films
Engler, Bruno
Abstract
Georgie Soloway is a hit love song writer who cannot love others, or himself. Although he's rich, successful and seemingly on top of the world, he spends his days dreaming of suicide and trying to track down a man named Harry Kellerman, who had been spreading outrageous lies about him.
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Dom Deluise, Barbara Harris.
Notes
Still photography by Bruno Engler
Accession Number
P2019-31
Call Number
06.3 W62 DVD
Collection
Archives Library
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