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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154563003321

Autore

Low Brian John <1950->

Titolo

NFB kids [[electronic resource] ] : portrayals of children by the National Film Board of Canada 1939-89 / / Brian J. Low

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-280-92550-7

9786610925506

0-88920-720-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

Studies in childhood and family in Canada

Disciplina

791.43/652054/0971

Soggetti

Children in motion pictures - History

Motion pictures - Social aspects - Canada

Motion pictures - Canada - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

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

Sommario/riassunto

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