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Performing Arts History & Criticism

Gendering the Nation

Canadian Women's Cinema

edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow & Janine Marchessault

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Jun 1999
Category
History & Criticism, Women's Studies, Feminism & Feminist Theory
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802079640
    Publish Date
    Jun 1999
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802041203
    Publish Date
    Jun 1999
    List Price
    $113.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442675223
    Publish Date
    Jun 1999
    List Price
    $114.00

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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.

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Kass Banning teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto.

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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.

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