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FILM AND THE CITY
FILM AND THE CITY
Subtitle:
The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema
Book Category:
Performing Arts > Film & Video > General
Author:
George, Melnyk
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 13:
9781927356593
Price:
USD 32.95
Publication Year:
2014

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Athabasca University Press.

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Book 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