Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema

• Glavni avtor: George Melnyk (auth)
• Format: Elektronski Book Chapter
• Jezik: angleščina
• Izdano: Athabasca University Press 2014
• Teme: 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
• Online dostop: 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...