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Working on screen : representations of the working class in Canadian cinema /

As themes in film studies literature, work and the working class have long occupied a peripheral place in the evaluation of Canadian cinema, often set aside in the critical literature for the sake of a unifying narrative that assumes a division between Québécois and English Canada's film prod...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Khouri, Malek, 1953-, Varga, Darrell, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2006.
Colección:Cultural studies series (Toronto, Ont.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: working on screen / Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga
  • In search of the Canadian labour film / David Frank
  • Communists, class, and culture in Canada / Scott Forsyth
  • The image of the 'people' in the CBC's Canada: a people's history / Darrell Varga
  • Work it girl! Sex, labour, and nationalism in Valerié / Rebecca Sullivan
  • Not playing, working: class, masculinity, and nation in the Canadian hockey film / Bart Beaty
  • Other-ing the worker in Canadian 'gay cinema': Thom Fitzgerald's The hanging garden / Malek Khouri
  • Whose museum is it anyway? Discourses of resistance in the adaptation of The Glace Bay Miners' Museum into Margaret's Museum / Peter Urquhart
  • Activating history: Sara Diamond and the Women's Labour History Project / Susan Lord
  • Dirty laundry: re-imagining the Canadian Pacific Railway and the construction of the nation / Margot Francis
  • Look like a worker and act like a worker: stereotypical representations of the working class in Quebec fiction feature films / André Loiselle
  • Inscriptions of class and nationalism in Canadian 'realist' cinema: Final offer and Canada's sweetheart: the saga of Hal C. Banks / Joseph Kispal-Kovacs
  • Rule and the representation of class relations in Canadian film / John McCullough
  • Counter narratives, class politics, and metropolitan dystopias: representations of globalization in Maelström, waydowntown, and La moitié gauche du frigo / Brenda Longfellow.