Canadian National Cinema

Introduction. 1. Immigration and Empire-building: Film as a Colonizing Discourse - Immigration Films-Attracting the right/white kind of invader-settlers Melodrama and the Ideological Cinema of White Invasion/Settlement: An Unselfish Love; Drylanders; Drylanders and Ideology; Back to Gods Country 2. Who is Ethnographiable? - White Ethnographies: some white people are whiter than others: Hot Ice; Nation Building in Saskatchewan: The Ukrainians; Saving the Sagas: Salvage Ethnography; Secrets of Chinatown: The Monstrous Ethnographic; Of Japanese Descent: An Interim Report (1945) 3. Producing a National Cinema - Legislating a National Cinema, Establishing the National Film Board of Canada: Peoples of Canada (1947), Post-War Schemes and Dependency, The NFB and Feature Production, Funding Differences at the NFB: Regionalization, Studio D and the New Initiatives in Film; State Intervention: The Legislation of a Canadian Feature Film Industry; The Tax Shelter Boom and Canada's Hollywood Features; Telefilm Canada; Co-Production 4. Narrating Nations/Ma(r)king Differences - External and Internal Colonialism, Ethnic and Gendered Nationalisms: Patriotism, One and Reason Over Passion; Québec USA ou l'invasion pacifique / visit to a foreign country (1962), Genre Texts, Melodrama: Mon Oncle Antoine; Les bons débarras; Un Zoo la Nuit and Léolo; Le Confessional; Margaret's Museum; The Adujter, The Road Movie: My American Cousin, Highway 61, Goin' Down the Road, The Western: Road to Saddle River and The Grey Fox, Representing the FLQ Crisis: Action: The October Crisis of 1970; Les Ordres; Octobre; Nô; Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the Seventies Geneeration 5. Visualizing First Nations - Whiting Out the Indigene: Black Robe; Windigo; Clearcut; Map of the Human Heart; Dance Me Outside, Returning the Gaze: Aboriginal Filmmakers and Decolonization: Incident at Restigouche; Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance; Charley Squash Goes to Town; Honey Moccasin 6. Multicultural Fields of Vision: Moving the Mountain; Double Happiness; By This Parting; Masala; Rude 7. Screening Gender and Sexuality - Screening Gender: How They Saw Us: Careers and Cradles; Les Filles du Roi (They Called Us 'Les Filles du Roy'); Mourir à Tue Tête (A Scream From Silence); Our Marilyn Counter-Cinema and the Entertainment Film: Bye Bye Blues and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing; Dead Ringers Screening Sexuality: The Making of Monsters; Cineama and Fictive Sexuality in the National State: Zero Patience. Bibliography.

Biography

Chris Gittings