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The C Word: What Makes A Canadian? Selected Bibliography

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Canadian and Québécois Cinema (History and Theory)

Alemany-Galway, Mary. A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film. Lanham, M.D: Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Beard, William, and Jerry White. North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980. Edmonton: University of Press, 2002.

Chang, Elaine K. Reel Asian: Asian on Screen. : Coach House Books, 2007.

Coulombe, Michel, and Marcel Jean. Le dictionnaire du cinéma québécois. Montréal : Boréal, 1991.

Dorland, Michael. The Cultural Industries in Canada: Problems, Policies, and Prospects. Toronto: J. Lorimer & Co, 1996.

Elder, Bruce. Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture. Waterloo, O.N: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1989.

Evans, Gary. In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

Harcourt, Peter. Movies and Mythologies: Towards a . Toronto: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 1977.

Khouri, Malek, and Darrell Varga. Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Leach, Jim. Film in Canada. Don Mills, O.N: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Lerner, Loren R. Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Loiselle, André, and Tom McSorley. Self Portraits: The Cinemas of Canada Since Téléfilm. Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute/Institut canadien du film, 2006.

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The C Word: What Makes A Film Canadian? Selected Bibliography

Melnyk, George. One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

---. The Young, the Restless, and the Dead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers. Waterloo, O.N: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008.

Monk, Katherine. Weird Sex & Snowshoes: And Other Canadian Film Phenomena. , B.C: Raincoast Books, 2001.

Morris, Peter. Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895-1939. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992.

Pratley, Gerald. Torn Sprockets: The Uncertain Projection of the Canadian Film. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987.

Rist, Peter. Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada. Wesport, C.T: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001.

Véronneau, Pierre and Piers Handling. Self Portrait: Essays on the Canadian and Cinemas. Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute, 1980.

Walz, Eugene P. Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian . Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002.

Waugh, Thomas. The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006.

---, Ezra Winton, and Michael B. Baker. : Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada ontr al: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.

White, Jerry. The . London: Wallflower, 2006.

Contemporary Canadian Cinema and Diasporic Identities

Alemany-Galway, ary “Canadian Film History and : Realism, odernism, and Postmodernism ” in A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002. 101-118.

Beaty, Bart, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, and Rebecca Sullivan. How Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture. Edmonton: AU Press, 2010.

Gilroy, Paul “Diaspora and the Detours of Identity” in Identity and Difference. K. Milton Keynes (ed). Woodward: Open University Press, 1997. 304.

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The C Word: What Makes A Film Canadian? Selected Bibliography

Gittins, Christopher E. Canadian National Cinema: Ideology, Difference, and Representation. London: Routledge, 2002.

ackenzie, Scott “National Identity, Canadian Cinema, and ulticulturalism ” Canadian Aesthetics Journal 4 (Summer 1999). Accessed August 20, 2012. http://www.uqtr.ca/AE/vol_4/scott(frame).htm

Manning, Erin. Ephemeral Territories: Representing Nation, Home, and Identity in Canada. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Melnyk, George. Great Canadian Film Directors. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2007.

oorti, Sujata “Desperately Seeking an Identity: Diasporic Cinema and the Articulation of Transnational Kinship.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 6 (2003): 355-376.

onk, Katherine “Pluralist Perspectives: Seeking Salvation in the osaic odel ” Weird Sex and Snowshoes: and Other Canadian Film Phenomena. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2001.

Nancoo, Stephen E., and Robert S. Nancoo. The Mass Media and Canadian Diversity. Mississauga: Canadian Educators' Press, 1996.

Pike, David L. Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s: At . Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Pryke, Kenneth G., and Walter C. Soderlund. Profiles of Canada. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2003.

Sherbert, Garry, Annie Gerin, and Sheila Petty. Canadian Cultural Poesis: Essays on Canadian Culture. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2006.

Spivak, Mira. The Development of Regional Film and Television Production in Canada: A Study. Toronto: Paul Audley & Associates, 1989.

Taras, David, Maria Bakardjieva, and Frits Pannekoek. How Canadians Communicate II: Media, Globalization, and Identity. : University of Calgary Press, 2007.

Contemporary Quebec Cinema and New Cultural Identities

Alemany-Galway, ary “Canadian film history and Canadian identity: realism, modernism, and postmodernism ” in A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film. Lanham, M.D: Scarecrow Press, 2002. 101-118.

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The C Word: What Makes A Film Canadian? Selected Bibliography

Coulombe, ichel “Les anglophones et les immigrants dans le cin ma québécois : un cinéma blanc, blanc, blanc?” Ciné-Bulles 28. 4 (2010): 34-37.

Gittins, Chrisopher E “ ulticultural fields of vision ” in Canadian National Cinema: Ideology, Difference, and Representation. London: Routledge, 2002. 231-262.

Marshall, Bill. Quebec National Cinema. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001

onk, Katherine “Pluralist Perspectives: Seeking Salvation in the osaic odel ” in Weird Sex and Snowshoes: and Other Canadian Film Phenomena. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2001.

Pallister, Janis L. The Cinema of Québec: Masters in Their Own House. Madison N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995.

Poirier, Christian “Dynamiques de l’intervention qu b coise à l’aube de l’an 2000” in Le cinéma québécois: à la recherche d'une identité? Vol. 2. Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2004.

Simon, Sherry “The Intimate Other: Representations of Cultural Diversity in Quebec Film and Video (1985-1995) ” in Textualizing the Immigrant Experience. S. Ireland and P.J. Proulx (eds). Westport, C.T : Praeger, 2004. 51-64.

V ronneau, Pierre “Le cin ma qu b cois : ouvertures aux cultures du monde ” in Culture française d’Amérique. Monique Moser-Verrey (ed). Laval : Les Presses de l’Universit Laval, 2002 209- 231.

Female Film Narratives in Canadian Cinema

Armatage, Kay. Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Denault, Jocelyne. Dans l’ombre des projecteurs : les Québécoises et le cinéma. Sainte-Foy : Presses de l’Universit du Qu bec, 1996

Magar, Ghislaine, Ginette Terreault, and Denis Langlois. Cinéma au féminin: répertoire. Montréal: Cinéma libre, 1990.

Melnyk, George, and Brenda Austin-Smith. The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers. Waterloo, O.N: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010.

Vanstone, Gail. D Is for Daring: The Women Behind the Films of Studio D. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2007.

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The C Word: What Makes A Film Canadian? Selected Bibliography

Re-framing Race in Cinema (Aboriginal Cinema)

Knopf, Kerstin. Decolonizing the Lens of Power: Indigenous Films in North America. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008.

Lickers, Cynthia. Imagine Native: Aboriginally Produced Film & Video. Toronto: V Tape, 1998.

Marubbio, M.E. and Eric L. Buffalohead (eds). Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory. Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 2012.

Rader, Dean. Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the Nmai. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011.

Schweninger, Lee. Imagic Moments: Indigenous North American Film. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013.

Sigurjon, Baldur H, and Marian Bredin. Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada. : University of Press, 2010.

Singer, Beverly R. Wiping the War Paint Off the Lens: Native American Film and Video. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Regionalism in Canadian Film

Beard, William, and Jerry White. North of Everything: English-canadian Cinema Since 1980. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002.

MacKenzie, Scott. Screening Quebec: Quebe cois Moving Images, National Identity, and the Public Sphere. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.

McRoberts, Kenneth. Beyond Quebec: Taking Stock of Canada. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995.

Varga, Darrell. Rain, Drizzle, Fog: Film and Television in . Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2009.

White, Jerry. The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2009.

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The C Word: What Makes A Film Canadian? Selected Bibliography

Financing for Canadian Filmmakers

Canadian Heritage. Cultural Industries Branch. A Guide to Federal Programs for the Film and Video Sector. Ottawa: 2003.

Canadian Heritage. Cultural Industries Branch. Study on Completion Guarantees and Financing Tools in the Audio-Visual Industry. Ottawa: 2005.

Canadian Heritage. Cultural Industries Branch. A Guide to Federal Programs for the Film and Video Sector. Hull: 1998.

Feature Film Advisory Committee. The Road to Success: Report of the Feature Film Advisory Committee. Ottawa: The Committee, 1999.

Canadian Media Production Association. Guide: Canada's Ultimate Production Industry Directory (a.k.a. Livre De Référence Pour L'industrie De La Production Au Canada). Toronto: Canadian Film and Television Production Association, 2005.

Eilts, Mary. Building Budgets the Canadian Way: A How-to Guide for Film & Video. Scarborough: Thomson Nelson, 2006.

Goldsmith, Ben, and Tom O'Regan. The : Film Production in the Global Economy. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.

Hehner, Barbara. Making It: The Business of Film and Television Production in Canada. Toronto: Doubleday, 1987.

Canada. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Financing Film and Television Production: The Changing Environment. Mississauga: Insight Press, 1990.

---. Financing Options for the Canadian Film and Television Industry. Toronto: Insight Press, 1997.

Juneau, Pierre. Making Our Voices Heard: Canadian Broadcasting and Film for the 21st Century. Ottawa: The Committee, 1996.

Oda, Beverley. Background Report: Review of the Selection Criteria and Process for a Film Event in Montreal. Montréal: , 2006.

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The C Word: What Makes A Film Canadian? Selected Bibliography

TIFF Film Reference Library Subject File Clippings - Canada’s Top Ten Films

Anderson, Jason. (18 December 2003). Inside Canada’s Top Ten The Eye a.k.a. The Grid, pp. Film.

---. (29 January 2009). Hinterland where’s what The Eye a.k.a. The Grid, pp Film.

Demara, Bruce. (15 December 2010). Barney, Trigger, Splice, among picks., pp E5.

Kirkland, Bruce. (27 January 2006) Top 10 Canadian Films: Unfortunately people don’t realize how talented we are as filmmakers. Toronto Sun, pp E8.

Punter, Jennifer. (8 January 2010 ). Time to get your Canadian film fix. , pp R10.

TIFF Film Reference Library Subject File Clippings Canadian

Adilman, Sid. (1997 July 5). “Making movies, and money”. Toronto Star, pp L12.

Anderson, Jason. (21 February 2003). “Toronto film’s next generation” The Grid. pp Film.

Boncompagni, Vero. (19 February 2009). “Call it a box-office funk ” The Globe and Mail. pp R1.

Conlogue, Ray ( arch 7, 1997 ) “Quebec cinema” Then and Now Globe and Mail, pp D1.

Cormier, Sylvain. (31 Octobre 1999). “L’industrie du disque et due spectacle au Quebec: ‘Etat des lieux’”. Le Devoir, pp Les Art B1-B2.

Canadian Media Production Association. An Economic Report on the Canadian Film and Television Production Industry. Toronto: Canadian Film and Television Production Association, 2004.

Hayes, Scott “Top 10: Successful Canadian ovies ” AskMen. n.p. 11 February 2008. Web. February 2008.

Jean, Marcel. in Quebec : Documentary in Four Movement (translated by Timothy Barnard.) www.horizonzero.ca. July 23, 2003.

Ontario Media Development Corporation. OMDC Film & Television stats reflect stability in anchoring production in . Toronto: OMDC, 2003.

Ontario Media Development Corporation. Ontario Film and Television Production Stays Strong in 2001. Toronto: OMDC, 2002.

Ontario Media Development Corporation. OMDC announces that Ontario Soars past the $1 billion mark in Film and Television Production in 2000. Toronto: OMDC, 2001.

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The C Word: What Makes A Film Canadian? Selected Bibliography

Perreault, Luc. (27 decembre 1997). “Une année pourrie pour l cinéma québécois”. La Presse, pp C1,2.

Seguin, Denis. (2006 September 11-24).” No Risk No Reward – Why English-language Canadian films still don’t make money – and what to do about it”. , 93-98.

Telefilm Canada. 2002-2003 Annual Report: Commitments totaling $239 million. Products that connect with the Canadian public. Telefilm Canada, n.d. Web.

Telefilm Canada. Coproduction Statistics. Telefilm Canada, n.d. Web. 2002.

Vlessing, Etan “Territory Report: Canada”. The Reporter. n.d. n.p. Web. May 2006.

Tremblay, Odile (1999 Octobre 27). “La relève courtepointe du cinema qu b cois”. Le Devoir, pp B1.

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