George Melnyk

Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

George Melnyk is associate professor in theDepartment of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.He is the author of One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema(2004), as well as the editor of The Young, the Restless, and theDead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers (2008) and, with BrendaAustin-Smith, of The Gendered Screen: Canadian WomenFilmmakers (2010).

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Produktdetails

• Athabasca University Press
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Altersempfehlung: ab 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781927356593
• ISBN-10: 1927356598
• Artikelnr.: 40053117

Autorenporträt

George Melnyk is associate professor in theDepartment of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.He is the author of One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema(2004), as well as the editor of The Young, the Restless, and theDead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers (2008) and, with BrendaAustin-Smith, of The Gendered Screen: Canadian WomenFilmmakers (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema
The City of Faith: Navigating Piety in Arcand's Jésusde Montréal (1989)
The City of Dreams: The Sexual Self in Lauzon's Léolo(1992)
The Gendered City: Feminism in Rozema's Desperanto(1991), Pool's
Rispondetemi (1991), andVilleneuve's Maelstrom (2000)
The City Made Flesh: The Embodied Other in Lepage's LeConfessional (1995)
and Egoyan's Exotica (1994)
The Diasporic City: Postcolonialism, Hybridity, and Transnationalityin
Virgo's Rude (1995) and Mehta'sBollywood/Hollywood (2001)
The City of Transgressive Desires: Melodramatic Absurdity inMaddin's The
Saddest Music in the World (2003) andMy Winnipeg (2006)
The City of Eternal Youth: Capitalism, Consumerism, and Generationin
Burns's waydowntown (2000) and Radiant City(2006)
The City of Dysfunction: Race and Relations in Vancouver fromShum's Double
Happiness (1994) to Sweeney'sLast Wedding (2001) and McDonald's The Love
Crimesof Gillian Guess (2004)
Conclusion: National Identity and the Urban Imagination
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index