Canadian Film Reader

Preface = v Introduction = vii I "The Possibilities Are Truly Great" = 1 Speaking of Movies Gordon Sparling = 3 American Domination of the Motion Picture Industry: Canada as a Test Case Garth Jowett = 5 Ernest Shipman and "Back to God's Country" Peter Morris = 14 Conversations Gordon Sparling = 22 Conserving the Canadian Image Sam Kula = 29 II The National Film Board of Canada = 35 Grierson's First Years at the NFB Jack Ellis = 37 Documentary Films: World War II Ernst Borneman = 48 Before the Guerillières: Women's Films at the NFB During World War II Barbara Halpern Martineau = 58 The Innocent Eye: An Aspect of the Work of the National Film Board of Canada Peter Harcourt = 67 An Interview with Terence Macartney-Filgate Sarah Jennings = 77 On the Candid-Eye Movement Bruce Elder = 86 Rhythm 'n' Truths: Norman McLaren Derek Elley = 94 Donald Brittain: Green Stripe and Common Sense Ronald Blumer and Susan Schouten = 103 Challenge for Change Patrick Watson = 112 What Challenge? What Change? Marie Kurchak = 120 Saint-Jérome: The Experience of a Filmmaker as Social Animator Fernand Dansereau = 128 Memo to Michelle about Decentralizing the Means of Production John Grierson = 132 III Feature Filmmaking The Years of Hope Peter Harcourt = 139 Pierre Perrault Louis Marcorelles = 144 Review of "A tout prendre" Colin Young = 153 The Facts of Life, Toronto Style Joan Fox = 156 Who's Don Owen? What's He Done, and What's He Doing Now? Natalie Edwards = 160 A Married Couple: An Interview with Allan King Alan Rosenthal = 179 Claude Jutra's "Mon Oncle Antoine" Bruce Elder = 194 Gilles Carle-A Thematic Response or, Scenes From Family Life Piers Handling = 199 Men of Vision: Some Comments on the Work of Don Shebib Peter Harcourt = 208 Making Films for Your Own People: An Interview with Denys Arcand Judy Wright and Debbie Magidson = 217 Coward, Bully or Clown: The Dream-Life of a Younger Brother Robert Fothergill = 234 Mireille Dansereau: "La Vie rêvée" Interview by A. Ibrányi-Kiss = 250 What Makes Duddy Run? Daniel Golden = 258 Grandfather Love Is the Best Kind of Love Marshall Delaney = 262 An Account by a Privileged Hostage of Les Ordres: Brault Has Missed His Shot Pierre Vallières, translated by John Van Burek = 264 Filmmaking West Coast Style: Jack Darcus A. Ibrányi-Kiss = 268 Fear and Loathing to Order John Hofsess = 274 Wielandism: A Personal Style in Full Bloom Marshall Delaney = 279 IV Experimental Filmmaking = 283 True Patriot Love: The Films of Joyce Wieland Regina Cornwell = 285 The Life & Times of Michael Snow Interview by Joe Medjuck = 290 Michael Snow's "Wavelength" Bruce Elder = 308 The New Canadian Cinema: Images from the Age of Paradox Gene Youngblood = 323 Review of "The Hart of London" Seth Feldman = 333 David Rimmer: A Critical Collage Compiled by Joyce Nelson = 338 V "The Possibilities Are Truly Great" Continued = 345 A Place Like Home Robert Fothergill = 347 Statement from the Council of Canadian Filmmakers Sandra Gathercole = 364 Introduction Peter Harcourt = 370 Notes = 377 A Selected Bibliography = 388 Index = 401

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