Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film

Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film

Edited by Wyndham Wise
Copyright Date: 2001
Published by: University of Toronto Press
Pages: 286
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    Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film
    Book Description:

    The most exhaustive and up-to-date reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers, combining 700 reviews and biographical listings with a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history.

    eISBN: 978-1-4426-2362-0
    Subjects: Film Studies

Table of Contents

  1. Front Matter
    (pp. i-vi)
  2. Table of Contents
    (pp. vii-viii)
  3. Foreword ON TRUDEAU, THE NATION, AND CANADIAN CINEMA
    (pp. ix-x)
    PATRICIA ROZEMA

    Pierre Elliott Trudeau sat a few rows ahead of me at the first screening in Canada of my English-made, American-paid, very Canadian adaptation of Jane Austen’sMansfield Parkat the opening of the Montreal Film Festival, in August 1999. I almost asked a festival official to introduce me, but then suddenly feared appearing like another hustler with an agenda – even though I had no agenda. Trudeau died recently. I now wish I had made contact. He was our leading man for so many important years. He was our star. And we never once worried that he’d move to Los...

  4. Preface
    (pp. xi-xii)
    Wyndham Wise
  5. Abbreviations
    (pp. xiii-xiv)

  6. Take One’s Essential Guide to Canadian Film

  7. Appendix 1: A Chronology of Canadian Film and Television
    (pp. 229-258)
  8. Appendix 2: Awards
    (pp. 259-272)