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Canadian cinema in the new millennium

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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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Unpapered : writers consider Native American identity and cultural belonging

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Call Number
07.2 G46u
Responsibility
Edited by Diane Glancy and Linda Rodriguez
Publisher
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
xiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Indigenous Culture
Indigenous Customs
Indigenous People
Indigenous Traditions
History
Turtle Island
Identity
Colonialism
Abstract
Unpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor always clearly documented, and citizenship is a legal and political matter of sovereign nations determined by such criteria as blood quantum, tribal rolls, or community involvement. Those who claim a Native cultural identity often have family stories of tenuous ties dating back several generations. Given that tribal enrollment was part of a string of government programs and agreements calculated to quantify and dismiss Native populations, many writers who identify culturally and are recognized as Native Americans do not hold tribal citizenship. With essays by Trevino Brings Plenty, Deborah Miranda, Steve Russell, and Kimberly Wieser, among others, Unpapered charts how current exclusionary tactics began as a response to “pretendians”—non-indigenous people assuming a Native identity for job benefits—and have expanded to an intense patrolling of identity that divides Native communities and has resulted in attacks on peoples’ professional, spiritual, emotional, and physical states. An essential addition to Native discourse, Unpapered shows how social and political ideologies have created barriers for Native people truthfully claiming identities while simultaneously upholding stereotypes --Publisher's description.
Contents
Introduction / by Diane Glancy -- Show Your Papers. Paperwork / Kim Shuck -- Things you can do with your chart for calculating quantum of Indian blood / Deborah Miranda -- The white box / Kimberly L. Becker -- Seeking the Indian gravy train / Steve Russell -- Unpapered / Diane Glancy -- Finding the Way. On Chumash Land / Terra Trevor -- A salmon-fishing story / Abigail Chabitnoy -- Confessions of a detribalized mixed-blood / Jeanetta Calhoun Mish -- Thinking with Bigfoot about a Jackpine Savage : cryptogenealogical reflections / Carter Meland -- Identity Wars. "You don't look Indian" / Michele Leonard -- Pretend Indian exegesis : the pretend Indian uncanny valley hypothesis in literature and beyond / Trevino Brings Plenty -- Dead Indians. Live Indians. Legal Indians. / Ron Querry -- The animals' ballgame / Geary Hobson -- We never spoke / Linda Boyden -- Why We Matter. On being Chamorro and belonging to Guam / Craig Santos Perez -- Aunt Ruby's little sister dances / Kimberly Wieser -- Buffalo heads in diners : remnant populations / Denise Dotson Low -- And thus the tribes diminish / Linda Rodriguez.
ISBN
9781496235008
Accession Number
P2023.15
Call Number
07.2 G46u
Collection
Archives Library
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Dominion : the railway and the rise of Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Bown, Stephen R.
Publisher
[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
Call Number
08.5 B68d
Author
Bown, Stephen R.
Publisher
[Toronto] : Doubleday Canada
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Canadian Pacific Railway
Transportation
Railway
Travel
History
History-Canada
Abstract
Stephen R. Bown continues to revitalize Canadian history with this thrilling account of the engineering triumph that created a nation. In The Company, his bestselling work of revisionist history, Stephen Bown told the dramatic, adventurous and bloody tale of Canada's origins in the fur trade. With Dominion he continues the nation's creation story with an equally thrilling and eye-opening account of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In the late 19th century, demand for fur was in sharp decline. This could have spelled economic disaster for the venerable Hudson's Bay Company. But an idea emerged in political and business circles in Ottawa and Montreal to connect the disparate British colonies into a single entity that would stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With over 3,000 kilometers of track, much of it driven through wildly inhospitable terrain, the CPR would be the longest railroad in the world and the most difficult to build. Its construction was the defining event of its era and a catalyst for powerful global forces. The times were marked by greed, hubris, blatant empire building, oppression, corruption and theft. They were good for some, hard for most, disastrous for others. The CPR enabled a new country, but it came at a terrible price. In recent years Canadian history has been given a rude awakening from the comforts of its myths. In Dominion, Stephen Bown again widens our view of the past to include the adventures and hardships of explorers and surveyors, the resistance of Indigenous peoples, and the terrific and horrific work of many thousands of labourers. His vivid portrayal of the powerful forces that were molding the world in the late 19th century provides a revelatory new picture of modern Canada's creation as an independent state."-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9780385698726
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
08.5 B68d
Collection
Archives Library
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The soo line's famous trains to Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Gainer, Terry
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
08.5 G12t
08.5 G12t reference copy
Author
Gainer, Terry
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
90 pages ; 8 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
CP Rail
Canadian Pacific Railway
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels
Railway
Railway routes
Transportation
History
Abstract
The Soo Line’s Famous Trains To Canada is a brief history of a small and unique Class 1 railway and its famous Canada–USA tourist trains. Initially chartered in 1883 to serve the needs of local millers in Minneapolis, the Soo would eventually come to join the Canadian Pacific line at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, with service to Montreal. In 1888, Canadian Pacific assumed controlling interest in the Soo Line, providing entry into the lucrative US market and levelling the playing field for the CPR to face the onslaught of ferocious competition from James J. Hill, the infamous American railway baron. The “little railway that could” grew to attain giant-killer status, launching famous passenger trains from Minneapolis and St. Paul, meeting head-on the western expansion of the Great Northern Railway and viable, competitive routes to the Atlantic seaboard. Over the years, the Soo Line introduced thousands of Americans to Montreal and Quebec City, the famous Canadian Rockies resorts, and the city of Vancouver, the home port for CP’s Pacific steamship services. The Soo also successfully competed on the Spokane and Portland routes from Minneapolis to the Pacific Northwest. In 1923 the “Soo Mountaineer” was launched, becoming the most famous and longest “two-nation” train journey in North America. -- From publisher
Contents
Part 1: A brief history of the soo line -- 1. In the beginning -- 2. The birth of the railway -- 3. What a tangled web we weave -- 4. Westward ho through great northern's backyard -- 5. Wisconsin central, the final piece of the puzzle -- 6. Setting the stage, Canadian pacific steamship company and Canadian pacific hotels and resorts -- Part 2: Famous trains of the soo -- 7. The Atlantic limited -- 8. The soo Pacific express -- 9. The Manitoba express, the Winnipeg express, the winnipeger -- 10. The soo-Spokane-Portland train deluxe -- 11. The mountaineer -- 12. The mystique of the mountaineer -- 13. The depression and the dirty thirties -- 14. My mountaineer -- 15. 1962, triumph and tragedy -- 16. The end of an era.
ISBN
9781771606714
Accession Number
P2023.25
Copy 1 signed by author
Call Number
08.5 G12t
08.5 G12t reference copy
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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Artist
Mary Anne Barkhouse (1961 – , Canadian)
Date
2023
Medium
cotton
Catalogue Number
BkM.08.01
Description
A large woven tapestry featuring a central image of figures in ornate european 17th century clothing on a dias facing a large Bison. Around the Bison are other animals: a mule deer, a raven and crow, a magpie, and a squirrel. 4 other black birds are on the bison’s shoulders and another bird is on i…
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Artist
Mary Anne Barkhouse (1961 – , Canadian)
Title
Summit
Date
2023
Medium
cotton
Dimensions
152.0 x 210.0 cm
Description
A large woven tapestry featuring a central image of figures in ornate european 17th century clothing on a dias facing a large Bison. Around the Bison are other animals: a mule deer, a raven and crow, a magpie, and a squirrel. 4 other black birds are on the bison’s shoulders and another bird is on it’s rump. The ground is a geometric tiled floor and Cascade mountain rises up in the background. In the sky a small helicopter can be seen long lining. This scene is edged in gold thread with a thick blue border full of flora and fauna of the rockies. The bottom two corners have scrollwork, framing “SUMMIT” over a row of pink flowers in bottom centre.
Subject
Bison
animals
Banff National Park
history
Credit
Purchased from Mary Anne Barkhouse, Minden, 2023
Catalogue Number
BkM.08.01
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When trains rules the Kootenays : a short history of railways in Southeastern British Columbia

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25533
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Gainer, Terry
Publisher
Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
Edition
First
Call Number
08.5 G12w
Author
Gainer, Terry
Edition
First
Publisher
Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
240 pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
When Trains Ruled
Subjects
Travel
Transportation
Railways
Railway routes
History
Abstract
When Trains Ruled the Kootenays is the story of how the railways established an extensive and convenient transportation network to haul ore from the mines, move people, and service the communities during the early years of the 20th century in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. Terry Gainer's latest book documents sixty years of change in the railway industry of British Columbia. The evolving transformations of life and landscape noted in the text and photos also reflect a period of rapid change in Canada. Threaded through the narrative are anecdotes from Kootenay pioneers recounting their experiences and the means of transportation of the times. -- Publisher's website
Contents
Part I : Rails to the Kootenays: The Kootenays ; The Antagonists ; The Battle Begins : Rails to the West Kootenays ; The Battle Moves East : Rails to the Crowsnest Pass ; Ship Ahoy! The Clash on Kootenay Lake ; The Battle Moves West : Peace at Last? ; Part II : The Trains to Gold and Silver: Nelson Becomes the Hub ; The Trains of the Kootenays ; A Day at the Station ; Trains to Rossland and Trail ; Trains to Castlegar ; Arrowhead and Nakusp : The North Kootenay Gateway ; The Travellers of Yesterday ; Special Trains and Excursions ; Not-So-Special Trains : Canada's Shame, Japanese Canadian Internment ; Into the 20th Century ; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ; Epilogue - The End of a Dream
ISBN
9781771604017
Accession Number
2022.08
Call Number
08.5 G12w
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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Rare merit : women in photography in Canada, 1840-1940

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Skidmore, Colleen
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press
Call Number
08.1 Sk3r
Author
Skidmore, Colleen
Publisher
Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
356 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Photography
Women
History-Canada
Travel
Abstract
As Canada took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the camera was there throughout as both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and as a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, photographed people and places that were entirely new to the lens. Rare Merit examines how they did so, why their images look the way they do, and the meanings their work carries. Studio portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and photographic printers make up the assembly, beginning with the arrival in Nova Scotia of North America’s first professional woman photographer, the American daguerreotypist Mrs. Fletcher. Colleen Skidmore surveys the professional lives and photographs of nearly eighty women who followed her, from Lucy Maude Montgomery on Prince Edward Island to Élise Livernois in Quebec City, and from Margaret Bourke-White in the Arctic to Hannah Maynard on Vancouver Island. Why women? Why not women? Presenting the exceptional range of their work, Rare Merit proves that women’s practices and images--knowingly omitted from founding narratives of photographic history--were diverse, compelling, widespread, and influential. Whenever and wherever women photographers lived, travelled, and worked, their impact undermined the status quo. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
The Daguerreans, 1841-61 ; The Livernois Studio, 1854-74 ; Notman's Printing Room, 1860-80 ; The Maynard Studio, 1862-1912 ; The Moodie Studio, 1895-1905 ; Travel, Photography, and Photojournalism, 1872-1940 ; Commercial Studio Photographers,1860-1940 ; Artists and Amateurs, 1890-1940
ISBN
9780774867054
Accession Number
2022.09
Call Number
08.1 Sk3r
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
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Connecting the Kootenays : the Kootenay Lake ferries, a hundred years of service 1921-2020

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25567
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
January 2022
Author
Cone, Michael A.
Publisher
Nelson, British Columbia : Michael A. Cone
Call Number
08.5 C75c
Author
Cone, Michael A.
Publisher
Nelson, British Columbia : Michael A. Cone
Published Date
January 2022
Physical Description
354 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Transportation
Water Travel
Travel
Kootenay Lake
Boat
Ferry
History
Abstract
Connecting the Kootenays chronicles the history of the Kootenay Lake ferry service from its modest beginnings in 1921 through to its 100th anniversary in 2020. -- From back cover
Contents
The Great Trunk Road (1908-1921) ; The Canadian Pacific Railway Fills the Gap (1884-1913) ; The Nasookin: Queen of Kootenay Lake (1913-1930) ; Nelson to Kuskanook: A Trip to Remember (1921-1930) ; The Provinical Government Steps In (1931) ; The Great Depression and the Second World War (1931-1947) ; Saying Goodbye to the Nasookin (1947-1956) ; A New Ferry and a New Route (1947-1954) ; The Auxiliary Ferry: The Balfour (1954) ; Growing Pains for the Two-Ferry Service and the Opening of the "Skyway" (1955-1963) ; Labour Strife, Major Rebuilds and Looking beyond the New Millennium (1964-1999) ; The Osprey 2000, Privitization and Facing Challenges Ahead (2000-2020)
ISBN
9781778350511
Accession Number
P2022.12
Call Number
08.5 C75c
Collection
Archives Library
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The geography of memory : reclaiming the cultural, natural and spiritual history of the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First people

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Delehanty Pearkes, Eileen
Publisher
Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
07.2 D37a
Author
Delehanty Pearkes, Eileen
Publisher
Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Geography
Human Geography
Kootenay
History
British Columbia
Indigenous
Abstract
This compact book records a quest for understanding, to find the story behind the Snayackstx (Sinixt) First Nation. Known in the United States as the Arrow Lakes Indians of the Colville Confederated Tribes, the tribe lived along the upper Columbia River and its tributaries for thousands of years. In a story unique to First Nations in Canada, the Canadian federal government declared them “extinct” in 1956, eliminating with the stroke of a pen this tribe’s ability to legally access 80 per cent of their trans-boundary traditional territory. Part travelogue, part cultural history, the book details the culture, place names, practices, and landscape features of this lost tribe of British Columbia, through a contemporary lens that presents all readers with an opportunity to participate in reconciliation. -- From publisher
ISBN
9781771605212
Accession Number
P2022.14
Call Number
07.2 D37a
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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