The definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film making in Canada.
Kay Armatage is Chair, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, University of Toronto. Kass Banning teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. Brenda Longfellow is a filmmaker and an associate professor at Atkinson College, York University.
Acknowledgments
xiii
Gendering the Nation
3
(14)
Kay Armatage
Kass Banning
Brenda Longfellow
Janine Marchessault
Pioneer
Nell Shipman: A Case of Heroic Femininity
17
(24)
Kay Armatage
Documentary
Studio D's Imagined Community: From Development (1974) to Realignment (1986-1990)
41
(21)
Elizabeth Anderson
Anti-Porn: Soft Issue, Hard World
62
(14)
B. Ruby Rich
Storytelling and Resistance: The Documentary Practice of Alanis Obomsawin
76
(18)
Zuzana Pick
A Cinema of Duty: The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva
94
(15)
Cameron Bailey
Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh
109
(11)
Carol Kalafatic
To Document - to Imagine - to Simulate
120
(15)
Ron Burnett
Avant-Garde
Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema: From Introspection to Retrospection
135
(13)
Janine Marchessault
The Scene of the Crime: Genealogies of Absence in the Films of Patricia Gruben
148
(17)
Susan Lord
Narrative Fiction
Gender, Landscape, and Colonial Allegories in The Far Shore, Loyalties, and Mouvements du desir
165
(18)
Brenda Longfellow
A Minority on Someone Else's Continent: Identity, Difference, and the Media in the Films of Patricia Rozema
183
(14)
Robert L. Cagle
Barbaras en Quebec: Variations on Identity
197
(15)
Chantal Nadeau
Mourning the Woman's Film: The Dislocated Spectator of The Company of Strangers
212
(13)
Catherine Russell
Fragmenting the Feminine: Aesthetic Memory in Anne Claire Poirier's Cinema
225
(19)
Joan Nicks
Two plus Two: Contesting the Boundaries of Identity in Two Films by Micheline Lanctot
244
(9)
Peter Harcourt
Cowards, Bullies, and Cadavers: Feminist Re-Mappings of the Passive Male Body in English-Canadian and Quebecois Cinema
253
(21)
Lee Parpart
Querying/Queering the Nation
274
(17)
Jean Bruce
Playing in the Light: Canadianizing Race and Nation
291
(20)
Kass Banning
Selected Bibliography
311
(6)
Contributors
317
(4)
Index
321
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