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Performing Arts History & Criticism

Candid Eyes

Essays on Canadian Documentaries

edited by Jim Leach & Jeannette Sloniowski

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Dec 2003
Category
History & Criticism, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802082992
    Publish Date
    Dec 2003
    List Price
    $37.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802047328
    Publish Date
    Mar 2003
    List Price
    $85.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442658691
    Publish Date
    Dec 2003
    List Price
    $37.95

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Beginning in 1922, when Robert Flaherty filmed 'Nanook of the North' in Canada's Arctic, and encouraged by John Grierson and the federal government in 1939 when they created the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), documentaries have dominated Canada's film production and, more than any other form, have been crucial to the formation of Canada's cinematic identity.

Surprisingly, there has been very little critical writing on this distinguished body of work. Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries not only addresses this oversight in the scholarly literature, but in doing so, it presents an exceptional collection of essays by some of Canada's best known film scholars. Focusing on works produced in French and English under the NFB umbrella, the fourteen essays discuss and critique such landmark documentaries as 'Lonely Boy' (1962), 'Pour la suite du monde' (1963), and 'Kanehsatake' (1993). Long awaited and much needed, this volume will be an indispensable companion for anyone seriously interested in Canadian film studies.

About the authors

Jim Leach and Jeannette Sloniowski teach in the Department of Communications, Popular Culture, and Film at Brock University.

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Jeannette Sloniowski is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. She is a series editor for the TV Milestones series at Wayne State University Press, author of several journal articles and four edited books including Documenting the Documentary, Slippery Pastimes: Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture (WLU Press, 2002), and Candid Eyes.

Marilyn Rose is a professor in the Department of English at Brock University. She specializes in modern and contemporary short fiction and poetry as well as detective fiction. She has published articles and book chapters in these areas and, with Jeannette Sloniowski, created and maintains CrimeFictionCanada, a scholarly database dedicated to the study of detective fiction in English around the world.

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