A postmodern cinema
Subtitle: the voice of the other in Canadian film
By: Mary Alemany-Galway
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Canada -- History; Motion pictures -- Philosophy; Postmodernism
Description: "A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film is both an informative description of postmodern and poststructuralist theory and an enlightening illustration of how Canadian filmmakers have used postmodern and poststructuralist cinematic technique in Canadian film. The book explores four films: Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing, Denys Arcand's Jesus of Montreal, Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and William MacGillivray's Life Classes.

Using Canadian culture as an example of marginalized culture, each film illustrates a different aspect of the marginalized experience. Alemany-Galway deals with the transition from modernism to postmodernism in literature and film and focuses on the relationship of Canadian film history to the formation of a Canadian identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index
Table of contents: title: Toward a postmodernism film theory; title: The importance of Eisenstein's theories to postmodernism; title: Bazin : phenomenology and postmodernism; title: Metz : structuralist film theory in the light of poststructuralism; title: The turning point to postmodernism : the new novel and Last year at Marienbad; title: Canadian film history and Canadian identity : realism, modernism, and postmodernism; title: Jesus of Montreal; title: I've heard the mermaids singing; title: Family viewing; title: Life classes