Performing Arts History & Criticism
This Sweater Is for You!
Celebrating the Creative Process in Film and Art with the Animator and Illustrator of "The Hockey Sweater"
- Publisher
- ECW Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2011
- Category
- History & Criticism
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550229608
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $29.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781770900585
- Publish Date
- Feb 2012
- List Price
- $22.95
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Description
One of the most beloved stories of all time? The Hockey Sweater ?is celebrated in this heartfelt recollection. Reflecting on the original short story and mortifying real-life moment that started it all, the account relates how the resulting film is as much about childhood emotions and the desire to fit in as it is about hockey, the clash of cultures, and a harkening to bygone times. Canada’s tireless devotion to the film is illustrated, emphasizing how it is also loved by many more around the world. Delving into the artist’s notebooks, photographs, and memories, this record recreates the movie’s entire development, journeying back to the people and places that inspired its original imagery. The director’s additional films and illustrations are also explored, chronicling a 40-year career and providing rich insights into the creative process.
About the authors
ROCH CARRIER, who studied at the Universite de Montreal and completed a doctorate in Paris at the Sorbonne, is a novelist, playwright and children's author, and past winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Formerly the director of the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Librarian of Canada, Carrier is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Canada, and he holds many honorary doctorates. A quote from Carrier’s Canadian children's classic The Hockey Sweater could be found until recently on the back of Canada’s five-dollar bill. Carrier lives in Montreal.
DONALD WINKLER was born in Winnipeg in 1940, graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1961, and did graduate study as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar at the Yale School of Drama. From 1967 to 1995 he was a film director and writer at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, and, since the 1980s, has been a translator of Quebec literature: in 1994, 2011 and 2013 he won the Governor General’s Award for French to English translation, and has been a finalist for the prize on two other occasions.
Editorial Reviews
"This little unpretentious story about the influence of the Montreal Canadiens hockey team is probably the best-known and most beloved piece of writing throughout the Canadian provinces?especially Quebec'short of the national anthem." “George Plimpton, The Norton Book of Sports
" This Sweater is for You! is the new book written by Sheldon Cohen, providing a beautiful and fascinating glimpse into his creative process animating The Hockey Sweater ." — Waterloo Chronicle (March 28, 2012)
