Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian FilmsEugene P. Walz Long recognized for outstanding National Film Board documentaries and innovative animated movies, Canada has recently emerged from the considerable shadow of the Hollywood elephant with a series of feature films that have captured the attention of audiences around the world. This is the first anthology to focus on Canada's feature films - those acknowledged as its very best. With essays by senior academics and leading scholars from across the country as well as some fresh new voices, Canada's Best Features offers penetrating analyses of fifteen award-winning films. Internationally acclaimed directors David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Denys Arcand, and Claude Jutra are represented here. Noteworthy films include Mon oncle Antoine, often cited as Canada's number one film of all time, such Cannes Festival favourites as Le déclin de l'empire américain and Exotica, and cult films Careful by Guy Maddin and Masala by Srinivas Krishna. The essays offer the latest word on these films and filmmakers, done from a variety of perspectives. Some of the films have never been examined in-depth before. Complete filmographies and bibliographies accompany each essay. A contextualizing introduction by Professor Gene Walz provides the necessary overview. An annotated bibliography of books on the Canadian film industry completes this impressive package. |
Contents
JIM LEACH | 27 |
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Ted Kotcheff 1974 produced by John | 51 |
TOM MCSORLEY | 53 |
Les bons débarras Francis Mankiewicz 1980 produced by Claude Godbout | 97 |
The Grey Fox Phillip Borsos 1982 produced by Peter OBrian David | 115 |
BLAINE ALLAN | 117 |
Videodrome David Cronenberg 1983 produced by Claude Héroux | 145 |
SUZIE SAUFONG YOUNG | 147 |
BRENDA AUSTINSMITH | 209 |
ANGELA STUKATOR | 237 |
THOMAS WAUGH | 255 |
GEORGE TOLES | 275 |
WILL STRAW | 305 |
CATHERINE RUSSELL | 321 |
ELUNED JONES | 346 |
JOHN SCHOLES WITH GORDON COLLIER AND GENE WALZ | 363 |
Le déclin de lempire américain Denys Arcand 1986 produced by René | 173 |
The decline of frivolity | 175 |
Contributors I | 381 |
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