Gendering the Nation by Kay Armatage

Gendering the Nation by Kay Armatage

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The editors have produced a definitive collection of essays that address the impact and influence of a century of women's film-making in Canada. This book seeks to situate women's cinema through the complex optic of national culture.

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Gendering the Nation by Kay Armatage

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.
Kay Armatage is Chair, Graduate Programme in Women's Studies, University of Toronto. Kass Banning teaches Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. Brenda Longfellow is a filmmaker and an associate professor at Atkinson College, York University. Janine Marchessault is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media, and Globalization in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University.
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ISBN 13 9780802079640
ISBN 10 0802079644
Title Gendering the Nation
Author Kay Armatage
Series Heritage
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Year published 1999-06-26
Number of pages 350
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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