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Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema
 
 

Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema (Paperback)

by Malek Khouri (Editor), Darrell Varga (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press; 1 edition (Oct 7 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0802093884
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802093882
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2.3 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 454 g
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As themes in film studies literature, work and the working class have long occupied a peripheral place in the evaluation of Canadian cinema, often set aside in the critical literature for the sake of a unifying narrative that assumes a division between Québécois and English Canada?s film production, a social-realist documentary aesthetic, and what might be called a ?younger brother? relationship with the United States.

In Working on Screen, contributors examine representations of socio-economic class across the spectrum of Canadian film, video, and television, covering a wide range of class-related topics and dealing with them as they intersect with history, political activism, globalization, feminism, queer rights, masculinity, regional marginalization, cinematic realism, and Canadian nationalism.

Of concern in this collection are the daily lives and struggles of working people and the ways in which the representation of the experience of class in film fosters or marginalizes a progressive engagement with history, politics, and societies around the world. Working on Screen thus expands the scholarly debates on the concept of national cinema and builds on the rich, formative efforts of Canadian cultural criticism that held dear the need for cultural autonomy.

Contributors:
Bart Beaty
ScottForsyth
Margot Francis
David Frank
MalekKhouri
Joseph Kispal-Kovacs
Andre Loiselle
Brenda Longfellow
Susan Lord
John McCullough
Rebecca Sullivan
Peter Urquhart
Darrell Varga
Thomas Waugh



About the Author

Darrell Varga is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Film and Media Studies at the NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) University.

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