A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian FilmAlemany-Galway (media studies, Massey University, New Zealand) engages with a trend in Canadian cinema that speaks for those who are marginalized by society. She develops a rationale for a postmodern film theory to explore this trend and then focuses closely on four films: Jesus of Montreal, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Family Viewing, Life Classes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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The Importance of Eisensteins Theories to Postmodernism | 25 |
Phenomenology and Postmodernism | 47 |
Structuralist Film Theory in the Light | 61 |
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