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Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film

Edited by Wyndham Wise
Categories: Films, cinema
Series: Heritage

Take One’s Essential Guide to Canadian Film is the most exhaustive and up-to-date reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, combining 700 reviews and biographical listings with a detailed chronology ...

The Buried Astrolabe

By (author) Craig S. Walker
Categories: Theatre studies

Astrolabe / æstræ leÓb/ n. an instrument consisting of a disc and pointer, used to make astronomical measurements, especially of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and as an aid in navigation. Over ...

Quebec National Cinema

In the first comprehensive, theoretically informed work in English on Quebec cinema, Marshall views his Subject as neither the assertion of some unproblematic national wholeness nor a random collection ...

Claude Jutra

By (author) Jim Leach
Categories: Performing Arts

Through close readings of Jutra’s major films, Jim Leach analyses their distinctive cinematic qualities and discusses the responses they have received from reviewers and critics. He focuses both on ...

Gendering the Nation

Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God’s Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, ...