Performing Arts History & Criticism
Gendering the Nation
Canadian Women's Cinema
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 1999
- Category
- History & Criticism, Women's Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802079640
- Publish Date
- Jun 1999
- List Price
- $45.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802041203
- Publish Date
- Jun 1999
- List Price
- $113.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442675223
- Publish Date
- Jun 1999
- List Price
- $114.00
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Description
Since Nell Shipman wrote and starred in Back to God's Country (1919), Canadian women have been making films. The accolades given to film-makers such as Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, When Night is Falling), Alanis Obomsawin (Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance), and Micheline Lanctôt (Deux actrices) at festivals throughout the world in recent years attest to the growing international recognition for films made by Canadian women. With Gendering the Nation the editors have produced a definitive collection of essays, both original and previously published, that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film-making in Canada. In dialogue with new paradigms for understanding the relationship of cinema with nation and gender, Gendering the Nation seeks to situate women's cinema through the complex optic of national culture. This collection of critical essays employs a variety of frameworks to analyse cinematic practices that range from narrative to documentary to the avant-garde.
About the authors
Kay Armatage is Associate Professor, Cinema Studies and Women's Studies, University of Toronto. She is the author of Nell Shipman and co-editor of Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema.
Kass Banning teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto.
Geoff Pevere has been a broadcaster, programmer, author, and critic for more than thirty years. He was the first program coordinator of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Perspective Canada program. For many years he was the film critic for the Toronto Star, where he now writes about books. He is the co-author (with Greig Dymond) of Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture Odyssey and author of Team Spirit: A Field Guide to Roots Culture .
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Janine Marchessault is a professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University and holds a York Research Chair in Media Art and Social Engagement. Her research engages with the history of large-screen media (from multiscreen to IMAX to media as architecture and VR); diverse models of public art, festivals, and site-specific curation; 21st century moving-image archives; and notions of collective memory/history.
