Gendering the nation : Canadian women's cinema /
Armatage, Kay.
Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,
c1999.
Gendering the nation / Kay Armatage ... [et al.] -- Nell Shipman: a case of heroic femininity / Kay Armatage -- Studio D's imagined community: from development (1974) to realignment (1986-1990) / Elizabeth Anderson -- Anti-porn: soft issue, hard world / B. Ruby Rich -- Storytelling and resistance: the documentary practice of Alanis Obomsawin / Zuzana Pick -- A cinema of duty: the films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva / Cameron Bailey -- Keepers of the power: story as covenant in the films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh / Carol Kalafatic -- To document, to imagine, to simulate / Ron Burnett -- Feminist avant-garde cinema: from introspection to retrospection / Janine Marchessault -- The scene of the crime: genealogies of absence in the films of Patricia Gruben / Susan Lord -- Gender, landscape, and colonial allegories in The far shore, Loyalties, and Mouvements du désir / Brenda Longfellow -- A minority on someone else's continent: identity, difference, and the media in the films of Patricia Rozema / Robert L. Cagle -- Barbaras en Québec: variations on identity / Chantal Nadeau -- Mourning the woman's film: the dislocated spectator of The company of strangers / Catherine Russell -- Fragmenting the feminine: aesthetic memory in Anne Claire Poirier's cinema / Joan Nicks -- Two plus two: contesting the boundaries of identity in two films by Micheline Lanctôt / Peter Harcourt -- Cowards, bullies, and cadavers: feminist re-mappings of the passive male body in English-Canadian and Québécois cinema / Lee Parpart -- Querying/queering the nation / Jean Bruce -- Playing in the light: Canadianizing race and nation / Kass Banning.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-316) and index.
Women motion picture producers and directors
Feminist motion pictures