The gendered screen : Canadian women filmmakers / Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk, editors.

ISBN:

9781554582716

9781554581955

Title:

The gendered screen : Canadian women filmmakers / Brenda Austin-Smith and George Melnyk, editors.

Author:

Melnyk, George.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 270 pages).

Series:

Film + media studies ; [6]

Contents:

Canadian women filmmakers : re-imaging authorship, nationality, and gender / Brenda-Austing Smith and George Melnyk -- Feminist/feminine binaries and the body politic. The art of craft : the films of Andrea Dorfman / Andrew Burke ; Feminist ambiguity in the film adaptations of Lynne Stopkewich / Lee Parpart ; On the edge of genre : Anne Wheeler's interrogating maternal gaze / Kathleen Cummins ; Fluidity : Joyce Wieldand's political cinema / Kay Armatage -- Queer nation and popular culture. The art of making do : queer Canadian girls make movies / Jean Bruce ; Feminist filmmaking and the cinema of Patricia Rozema / Agata Smoluch Del Sorbo ; Leá Pool : the art of elusiveness / Florian Grandena -- Transiting nationality and the battlefields of otherness. On the field of battle : first nations women documentary filmmakers / Anthony Adah ; Eradicating erasure : the documentary film practice of Sylvia Hamilton / Shana McGuire and Darrell Varga ; Women, liminality, and "unhomeliness" in the films of Mina Shum / Brenda Austin-Smith ; Beyond tradition and modernity : the transnational universe of Deepa Mehta / Christina Stojanova ; Les Québécoises / Jerry White.

Subject Term:

Feminist films -- Canada -- History and criticism.

Lesbians in motion pictures.

Nationalism in motion pictures.

Women in motion pictures.

Women motion picture producers and directors -- Canada.

Added Author:

Melnyk, George.

Austin-Smith, Brenda, 1958-

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2010

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Summary

This book is the first major study of Canadian women filmmakers since the groundbreaking Gendering the Nation (1999). The Gendered Screen updates the subject with discussions of important filmmakers such as Deepa Mehta, Anne Wheeler, Mina Shum, Lynne Stopkewich, Léa Pool, and Patricia Rozema, whose careers have produced major bodies of work. It also introduces critical studies of newer filmmakers such as Andrea Dorfman and Sylvia Hamilton and new media video artists.

Feminist scholars are re-examining the ways in which authorship, nationality, and gender interconnect. Contributors to this volume emphasize a diverse feminist study of film that is open, inclusive, and self-critical. Issues of hybridity and transnationality as well as race and sexual orientation challenge older forms of discourse on national cinema. Essays address the transnational filmmaker, the queer filmmaker, the feminist filmmaker, the documentarist, and the video artist--just some of the diverse identities of Canadian women filmmakers working in both commercial and art cinema today.