NFB kids : portrayals of children by the National Film Board of Canada 1939-89 / / Brian J. Low
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| Autore: |
Low Brian John <1950->
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| Titolo: |
NFB kids : portrayals of children by the National Film Board of Canada 1939-89 / / Brian J. Low
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| Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/652054/0971 |
| Soggetto topico: | Children in motion pictures - History |
| Motion pictures - Social aspects - Canada | |
| Motion pictures - Canada - History | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | NFB kids |
| ISBN: | 1-280-92550-7 |
| 9786610925506 | |
| 0-88920-720-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811117203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Studies in childhood and family in Canada.