Film and the City: The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema

Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls "the nationalist-realist project," a document...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2014
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