By Jim Leach,Jeannette Sloniowski
ISBN-10: 0802047327
ISBN-13: 9780802047328
ISBN-10: 0802082998
ISBN-13: 9780802082992
Beginning in 1922, while Robert Flaherty filmed 'Nanook of the North' in Canada's Arctic, and inspired by means of John Grierson and the government in 1939 after they created the nationwide movie Board of Canada (NFB), documentaries have ruled Canada's movie construction and, greater than the other shape, were the most important to the formation of Canada's cinematic identity.
Surprisingly, there was little or no severe writing in this exceptional physique of labor. Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries not just addresses this oversight within the scholarly literature, yet in doing so, it provides a superb selection of essays by means of a few of Canada's most sensible identified movie students. targeting works produced in French and English lower than the NFB umbrella, the fourteen essays speak about and critique such landmark documentaries as 'Lonely Boy' (1962), 'Pour l. a. suite du monde' (1963), and 'Kanehsatake' (1993). lengthy awaited and lots more and plenty wanted, this quantity might be an essential significant other for someone heavily drawn to Canadian movie studies.
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