Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian by George Melnyk PAPERBACK

Film and the CityThe Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema\nAuthor(s): George Melnyk\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: AU Press, Canada\nImprint: AU Press\nISBN-13: 9781927356593, 978-1927356593\nSynopsis\nFor many years, Canadian cinema was dominated by the documentarytradition of the National Film Board, which tended to promote what filmscholar Jim Leach has called the \""nationalist-realistproject\""films that privileged Canada's naturallandscape and sought to conjure a unified sense of Canadian identityfrom images of empty, untrammelled wilderness and bucolic [url] the past several decades, however, the hegemony of thisfundamentally colonial, Anglo-centric vision has been challenged byfrancophone and First Nations perspectives and by the growth of cities,where most Canadians now reside, as economic and technological [url] opposition to the mythic \""Canada\"" shaped through thelens of rural nostalgia, Canadian urban identity asserts itself aspolyphonic, diverse, constructed through multipl.