
FILM AND THE CITY |
Subtitle:
The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema
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Book Category:
Performing Arts > Film & Video > General
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Author:
George, Melnyk
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Binding:
Paperback
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ISBN 13:
9781927356593
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Price:
USD 32.95
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Publication Year:
2014
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Publisher Info
Athabasca University Press. InquiryBook Description
Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls "the nationalist-realist project," a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land