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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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Native Americans in the movies : portrayals from silent films to the present

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2016

Author: Hilger, Michael

Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield

Call Number: 07.2 Hi54n

Author: Hilger, Michael

Responsibility: Michael Hilger

Publisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: ix, 453 pages ; 26 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: First Nations; Films; History

Abstract: "Since the early days of the silent era, Native Americans have been captured on film, often in unflattering ways. Over the decades, some filmmakers have tried to portray the Native American on screen with more balanced interpretations -- to varying degrees of success. More recent films such as The New World, Flags of Our Fathers, and Frozen River have offered depictions of both historical and contemporary Native Americans, providing viewers with a range of representations. Here, Michael Hilger surveys more than a century of cinema. Drawing upon his previous work, From Savage to Nobleman, Hilger presents a thorough revision of the earlier volume. The introductory material has been revised with updated information and examples and also adds discussions of representative films produced since the mid-1990s. Now organized alphabetically, the entries on individual films cover all relevant works made over the past century, and each entry contains much more information than those in the earlier book. Details include a film summary, nation represented, image portrayal, production details, and DVD availability. Many of the entries also contain comments from film critics to indicate how the movies were regarded at the time of their theatrical release. Supplemented by appendixes of image portrayals, representations of nations, and a list of made-for-television movies, this volume offers readers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of hundreds of films in which Native American characters have appeared on the big screen."--Publisher's description.

Contents: Traditional images of Native Americans -- Representative movies from silent films to the present -- Images of contemporary Native Americans -- Entries A-Z -- Appendix A: Films by nations -- Appendix B: Image portrayals of Native Americans -- Appendix C: Television films -- Appendix D: Films in chronological order.

ISBN: 978-1-4422-4001-8

Accession Number: p2019-05

Call Number: 07.2 Hi54n

Collection: Archives Library

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Screening nature and nation : the environmental documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974

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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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