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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785910503321

Autore

Helfer Rebeca <1969->

Titolo

Spenser's ruins and the art of recollection / / Rebeca Helfer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-4426-6057-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Collana

Cultural studies series

Disciplina

809.93353

Soggetti

Memory in literature

History

Electronic books.

Kanada

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Valerie / 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 / Andre 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 moitie gauche du frigo / Brenda Longfellow.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Quebecois and English Canada's film production, a social-realist documentary aesthetic, and what might be called a 'younger brother' relationship with the United States. In Working on Screen, contributors examine representations of socio-economic class across the spectrum of Canadian film, video, and television, covering a wide range of class-related topics and dealing with them as they intersect with history, political activism, globalization, feminism, queer rights, masculinity, regional marginalization, cinematic realism, and Canadian nationalism. Of concern in this collection are the daily lives and struggles of working people and the ways in which the representation of the experience of class in film fosters or marginalizes a progressive engagement with history, politics, and societies around the world. Working on Screen thus expands the scholarly debates on the concept of national cinema and builds on the rich, formative efforts of Canadian cultural criticism that held dear the need for cultural autonomy.