| Contents |
Gendering the nation / Kay Armatage ... [et al.] -- Nell Shipman : a case of heroic femininity / Kay Armatage -- Studio D's imagined community : from development (1974) to realignment (1986-1990) / Elizabeth Anderson -- Anti-porn : soft issue, hard world / B. Ruby Rich -- Storytelling and resistance : the documentary practice of Alanis Obomsawin / Zuzana Pick -- A cinema of duty : the films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva / Cameron Bailey -- Keepers of the power : story as covenant in the films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh / Carol Kalafatic -- To document, to imagine, to simulate / Ron Burnett -- Feminist avant-garde cinema : from introspection to retrospection / Janine Marchessault -- The scene of the crime : genealogies of absence in the films of Patricia Gruben / Susan Lord -- Gender, landscape, and colonial allegories in The far shore, Loyalties, and Mouvements du désir / Brenda Longfellow -- A minority on someone else's continent : identity, difference, and the media in the films of Patricia Rozema / Robert L. Cagle -- Barbaras en Québec : variations on identity / Chantal Nadeau -- Mourning the woman's film : the dislocated spectator of The company of strangers / Catherine Russell -- Fragmenting the feminine : aesthetic memory in Anne Claire Poirier's cinema / Joan Nicks -- Two plus two : contesting the boundaries of identity in two films by Micheline Lanctôt / Peter Harcourt -- Cowards, bullies, and cadavers : feminist re-mappings of the passive male body in English-Canadian and Québécois cinema / Lee Parpart -- Querying/queering the nation / Jean Bruce -- Playing in the light : canadianizing race and nation / Kass Banning. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-316) and index. |
| Subject |
Women motion picture producers and directors -- Canada.
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Feminist films -- Canada -- History and criticism.
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| Alt Author |
Armatage, Kay.
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| ISBN |
0802041205 (acid-free paper) |
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0802079644 (pbk.) |
| Description |
xi, 329 p. ; 24 cm. |
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