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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (319 S.)

ISBN: 9781927356593 , 9781927356609 , 9781927356616

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Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: X, 361 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 0-8020-3568-x , 0-8020-8444-3

Content: "In One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema, George Melnyk offers a twenty-first-century perspective on a fascinating film tradition, the distinctness of which has attracted the attention of the global cinematic community." "Melnyk's historical survey is comprehensive, examining the achievements of dramatic, documentary, and experimental film-making from the earliest days until the present, as well as the cultural, political, and theoretical trends that have shaped contemporary film in Canada." "Drawing on the insights of scholars, critics, and film-makers to provide a coherent appraisal of the state of the film industry and Canada's cinematic art as it enters its second century, Melnyk weaves the history of English and French Canada together in an attempt to understand the achievements and, ultimately, the failures of a 'national cinema.'"--BOOK JACKET.

Language: English

Subjects: General works

Keywords: Film

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (219 S.)

ISBN: 9781897425305 , 9781897425312

Note: As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk's Literary History of Alberta , English

Language: English

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Format: 1 electronic resource (320 p.)

Series Statement: The West

Content: Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has come to be seen as a distinct literature. In this volume Melnyk and Coates continue the project of scholarly analysis of Alberta literature that they began with Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature (2009). They argue that the essays in their new book confirm that Alberta's literary identity is historically contingent with a diverse, changing content, that makes its definition a work-in-progress. The essays in this volume provide contemporary perspectives on major figures in poetry and fiction, such as Robert Kroetsch, Sheila Watson, Alice Major, and Fred Stenson. Other essays bring to light relatively unknown figures such as the Serbian Canadian writer David Albahari and the pioneer clergyman Nestor Dmytrow. Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity offers a detailed discussion of contemporary Indigenous writers, an overview of Alberta historiography of the past century, and the fascinating autobiographical reflections of the novelist Katherine Govier on her literary career and its Alberta influences. This collection demonstrates that Alberta writers, especially in the contemporary period, are not afraid to uncover, re-think, and re-imagine parts of Alberta history, thereby exposing what had been lain to rest as an unfinished business needing serious re-consideration.

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Additional Edition: ISBN 1-55238-891-3

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Format: 1 online resource (320 pages) : , illustrations.

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-927356-61-X , 1-927356-60-1

Content: Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls "the nationalist-realist project," a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of Anglo-centrism has been challenged by francophone and First Nations perspectives and the character of cities altered by a continued influx of immigrants and the development of cities as economic and technological centers. No longer primarily defined through the lens of rural nostalgia, Canadian urban identity is instead polyphonic, diverse, constructed through multiple discourses and mediums, an exchange rather than a strict orientation. Taking on the urban as setting and subject, filmmakers are ideally poised to create and reflect multiple versions of a single city. Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand's Je?sus de Montre?al (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon's Le?olo (1992), Mina Shum's Double Happiness (1994), Cle?ment Virgo's Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and "urbanity"--the totality of urban culture and life. Drawing on film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation in Canadian studies, Melnyk considers how filmmakers, films, and urban audiences experience, represent, and interpret urban spatiality, visuality, and orality. In this way, Film and the City argues that Canadian narrative film of the postmodern period has aided in articulating a new national identity.

Note: Introduction : The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema -- The City of Faith : Navigating Piety in Arcand's Jésus de Montréal (1989) -- The City of Dreams : The Sexual Self in Lauzon's Léolo (1992) -- The Generderd City : Feminism in Rozema's Desperanto (1991), Pool's Rispondetemi (1991), and Villeneuve's Maelström (2000) -- The City Made Flesh : The Embodied Other in Lepage's Le Confessionnal (1995) and Egoyan's Exotica (1994) -- The Diasporic City : Postcolonialism, Hybridity, and Transnationality in Virgo's Rude (1995) and Mehta's Bollywood/Hollywood (2001) -- The City of Transgressive Desires : Melodramatic Absurdity in Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World (2003) and My Winnipeg (2007) -- The City of Eternal Youth : Capitalism, Consumerism, and Generation in Burns's waydowntown (2000) and Radiant City (2006) -- The City of Disfunction : Race and Relations in Vancouver from Shum's Double Happiness (1994) to Sweeney's Last Wedding (2001) and McDonald's The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004) -- Conclusion : National Identity and the Urban Imagination. , English

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Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (264 p.)

ISBN: 1-280-94618-0 , 9786610946181 , 1-55238-302-4 , 1-4294-1149-X

Content: Noted academics, politicians and activists examine Canada's decision not to support the recent US invasion and occupation of Iraq. Each contributor opposes the U.S. action and discusses how Canada's non-involvement might affect the future of Canadian-American relations. Included in this collection are never before published essays from high-profile contributors such as: Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector; Douglas Roche, Liberal senator; and Rev. William Phipps, former moderator of the United Church of Canada.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Front Matter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , From War to Peace -- , Thinking: Canada's Involvement in American Wars -- , The U.S. Or the Un: A Choice for Canada -- , Canadian Mass Media and the Middle East -- , The John Wayne Fallacy: How Logic Can Help Us Lose Our Faith in Violence -- , The Humanitarian Dimension of U.S.-Iraq Relations -- , The War on Iraq, The Bush Doctrine and Canada's Future -- , Postscript : The Future in Iraq and the United States -- , Acting: Peace Activism and the Global Anti-War Movement -- , Finding my Voice for Peace -- , Faithful Counterpoint To War -- , Peace Activism: A Canadian's Involvement in the Iraq Conflict -- , Iraq, International Law, and Responsible Citizenship -- , Drumbeating for War? Media Versus Peace and Democracy -- , On Being Trapped in the American Paradigm of Endless War: A Peace Option for Canada -- , Observing: International Perspectives on Canada's Role in the New Empire -- , Squandered Responsibility: Canada and the Disarming of Iraq -- , Doggone Diplomacy? The Iraq War, North American Bilateralism, and Beyond -- , The Moral Superiority Complex in the United States Poses a Moral Dilemma for Canada -- , Foreign And Defence Policy Independence: Will this be Our Very Last Chance? -- , Notes on Contributors , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-55238-130-7

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781552383025

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Format: 1 online resource (204 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-282-81963-1 , 9786612819636 , 1-897425-31-7

Content: As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk's Literary History of Alberta.

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Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781501378768

Content: Alejandro Jodorowsky is a theatre director, writer of graphic novels and comics, novelist, poet, and an expert in the Tarot. He is also an auteur filmmaker who garnered attention with his breakthrough film El Topo in 1970. He has been called a "cult" filmmaker, whose films are surreal, hallucinatory, and provocative. The Transformative Cinema of Alejandro Jodorowsky explores the ways in which Jodorowsky's films are transformative in a psychologically therapeutic way. It also examines his signature style, which includes the symbolic meaning of various colors in which he clothes his actors, the use of his own family members in the films, and his casting of himself in leading roles. This total involvement of himself and his family in his auteur films led to his psycho-therapeutic theories and practices: metagenealogy and psychomagic. This book is the only the second book in the English language in print that deals with all of Jodorowsky's films, beginning with his earliest mime film in 1957 and ending with his 2019 film on psychomagic. It also connects his work as a writer and therapist to his films, which themselves attempt to obliterate the line between fantasy and reality..

Note: Acknowledgements 1. Re-Appraising Alejandro Jodorowsky's Cinema 2. A Brief Summary of the Life and Times of Alejandro Jodorowsky 3. In the Beginning: La Cravate (1957) and Fando y Lis (1968) 4. The Birth of a Cult: El Topo (1970) 5. The Ascent of and the Descent from The Holy Mountain (1973) 6. The Interregnum: Dune (1974-76), Tusk (1980), The Rainbow Thief (1990) plus Jodorowsky's Comics/Graphic Novels 7. The Auteur Reborn: Santa Sangre (1989) 8. A Magical Childhood: La danza de realidad (The Dance of Reality 2013) 9. An Absurd Youth: Poesia sin fin (Poetry without End 2016) 10. The Therapist on Film: Psychomagic, A Healing Art (2019) 11. Jodorowsky Redux: Evaluating the Art of a Fabulist Filmography Bibliography Index .

Language: English

DOI: 10.5040/9781501378768

URL: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501378768?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections

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Format: 122 Seiten.

ISBN: 1-55059-060-X

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Politik ; Regionalismus

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Format: XVIII, 468 S. : , Ill.

Edition: 1. ed.

ISBN: 978-0-88864-479-4

Language: English

Subjects: General works

Keywords: Filmregisseur ; Filmregisseurin ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Biografie ; Aufsatzsammlung

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