UID:
edocfu_9959229683402883
Format:
1 online resource (295 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-92550-7
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9786610925506
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0-88920-720-8
Series Statement:
Studies in childhood and family in Canada
Content:
Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema - this book explores exactly that. Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989 overcomes a long-standing impasse about what films may be credibly said to document. Here they document not ""reality,"" but social images preserved over time - the ""NFB Society"" - an evolving, cinematic representation of Canadian families, schools and communities. During the postwar era, this society-in-cinema underwent a p
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; 1 Children in a Cinematic Society; 2 Early NFB Society: The Eyes of Democracy; 3 Lessons in Living: ''Deconstruction'' of a Rural Community in Early NFB Society; 4 Fields of Vision: Panoramas of Childhood in the Cinematic Society, 1947-67; 5 ''The New Generation'': Mental Hygiene and the Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1946-67; 6 A Progressive State of Disequilibrium: Social Relations in the Cinematic Society, 1968-89; 7 Conclusion: The Century of the Cinematic Child; 8 Epilogue
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Appendix 1: 300 NFB Films with Significant Portrayals of Children and Youth, 1939-89Appendix 2: A Note Concerning the Process of Film Selection; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-88920-386-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.51644/9780889207202
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