Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema

• मुख्य लेखक: George Melnyk (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Athabasca University Press 2014
• विषय: Quebec studies; Atom Egoyan; Film criticism; Robert Lepage; Bruce McDonald; Postmodern film; Guy Maddin; Bruce Sweeney; Patricia Rozema; Canadian film; Mina Shum; Urban studies; Deepa Mehta; Jean-Claude Lauzon; Denis Villeneuve; Clement Virgo; Gary Burns; Denys Arcand; Jim Leach
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls "the nationalist-realist project," a document...