Title: Canadian cinema since the 1980s : at the heart of the world /
Authors: Pike, David L. 1963-
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Motion pictures Canada History and criticism.; Motion picture producers and directors Canada.; Cinéma Canada Histoire et critique.; Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma Canada.
Abstract: "Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a lively, personal, and accessible history of the most influential filmmakers and movements of both Anglo-Canadian and Quebecois cinema, from popular movies to art film and everything in between.
Contents: Introduction: what is Canadian cinema and what happened to it at the end of the twentieth century? -- Canadian cinema 1896-1986: invisibility and difference -- The anxiety of influence: David Cronenberg and the Canadian imagination -- Time capsules: the eighties worlds of Denys Arcand and Patricia Rozema -- Crossover icons: the faces of Canadian cinema -- Quebecois auteurs: the new internationalism of Jean-Claude Lauzon, Léa Pool, and Robert Lepage -- Cronenberg's mutant progeny: genre film-making around the turn of the millennium -- The death of the author? The case of Atom Egoyan -- The Canadian mosaic: margins and ethnicities -- Film-making at the heart of the world: Guy Maddin.