LEADER 05506nam 2200913 450 001 9910140527203321 005 20210209141312.0 010 $a1-927356-61-X 010 $a1-927356-60-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000566694 035 $a(EBL)1693593 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001326131 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12477863 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001326131 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11521325 035 $a(PQKB)11334368 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4839953 035 $a(CEL)466289 035 $a(OCoLC)887633436 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00234732 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3293594 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1693593 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1693593 035 $a(OCoLC)858716769 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/47627 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/c0cwvd 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000566694 100 $a20130913h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFilm and the city $ethe urban imaginary in Canadian cinema /$fGeorge Melnyk 210 $cAthabasca University Press$d2014 210 4$dİ2014 210 1$aEdmonton [Alberta.] :$cAU Press,$d[2014] 210 2$aBeaconsfield, Quebec :$cCanadian Electronic Library,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-306-80832-4 311 $a1-927356-59-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema -- The City of Faith : Navigating Piety in Arcand's Je?sus de Montre?al (1989) -- The City of Dreams : The Sexual Self in Lauzon's Le?olo (1992) -- The Generderd City : Feminism in Rozema's Desperanto (1991), Pool's Rispondetemi (1991), and Villeneuve's Maelstro?m (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. 330 $aMost 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. 606 $aMotion pictures$zCanada$xHistory 606 $aCity and town life in motion pictures 606 $aCities and towns in motion pictures 610 $aQuebec studies 610 $aAtom Egoyan 610 $aFilm criticism 610 $aRobert Lepage 610 $aBruce McDonald 610 $aPostmodern film 610 $aGuy Maddin 610 $aBruce Sweeney 610 $aPatricia Rozema 610 $aCanadian film 610 $aMina Shum 610 $aUrban studies 610 $aDeepa Mehta 610 $aJean-Claude Lauzon 610 $aDenis Villeneuve 610 $aClement Virgo 610 $aGary Burns 610 $aDenys Arcand 610 $aJim Leach 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory. 615 0$aCity and town life in motion pictures. 615 0$aCities and towns in motion pictures. 676 $a791.43 700 $aMelnyk$b George$0801173 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910140527203321 996 $aFilm and the city$91924567 997 $aUNINA