THE CINEMA OF CANADA

Often overlooked and overshadowed by its North American cousin, Canadian cinema has nevertheless produced some fascinating films and directors, including Atom Egoyan, Robert Lepage, Denys Arcand, Michael Snow and David Cronenberg. The Cinema of Canada contains 24 essays, each on a different film and divides itself into three distinct categories: English-Canadian cinema; Québec cinema; Aboriginal cinema. In so doing, it provides a fascinating historical account of the development of film and documentary traditions across the diverse national and regional communities in Canada. Among the many important films discussed are Le Déclin de l’empire américain (1988), I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1988), Exotica (1994), Dead Man (1995), Le Confessional (1995) and Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001). 

June 2006
288 pages

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Jerry White is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Alberta, where he is also President of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies. He has published widely on Canadian cinema including, as co-editor, North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980 (2002).

'Polemical and timely, at once scholarly and accessible, The Cinema of Canada provides a substantial contribution to the field. The twenty-four essays are invaluable as individual studies; taken together they provide a sustained argument on the changing identity of Canadian cinema whose significance ranges far beyond its physical borders.'
David L. Pike, American University

‘A very informative volume. The strong analyses of individual films do ample justice to the complexity and diversity of Canada and of Canadian cinema, and carefully trace its contextual and historical development.’
Bill Marshall, Glasgow University