Killing Women

Edited by Annette Burfoot & Susan Lord
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Sociology, Film & Media
Series: Cultural Studies

The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. ...

Don Owen

Edited by Steve Gravestock
Subjects: Film & Media
Series: Toronto International Film Festival

Don Owen, perhaps best known as the director of the seminal 1964 feature Nobody Waved Goodbye, is one of the central figures in the development of English-Canadian cinema. Owen spent much of his career ...

Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary

Edited by David Clandfield
Subjects: Film & Media
Series: Toronto International Film Festival

One of the great exponents of the direct cinema style, Quebecois poet, essayist, and film-maker Pierre Perrault (1927-1999) began his documentary career in radio before joining the more traditional René ...

The Films of Jack Chambers

Edited by Kathryn Elder
Subjects: Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Cinematheque Ontario Monographs

Essay contributors include Stan Brakhage, Fred Camper, Jack Chambers, R. Bruce Elder, Avis Lang, Sarah Milroy, Bart Testa, Peter Tscherkassky, Ross Woodman, and Michael Zyd.
Published by Cinematheque ...

Allan King

Edited by Seth Feldman
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Film & Media
Series: Toronto International Film Festival

For nearly half a century, Allan King has changed the way film and television show us the world. Warrendale, banned from Canadian television in one of the most infamous censorship battles of the 1960s, ...

NFB Kids

By Brian J. Low
Subjects: History, Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Social Science, Sociology, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema — this book explores exactly that.
Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children ...

Jean Pierre Lefebvre

Edited by Peter Harcourt
Subjects: Film & Media
Series: Toronto International Film Festival

Jean Pierre Lefebvre is one of the most inventive and prolific of all Canadian filmmakers. From the sixties to the eighties, his films were as much celebrated at international film festivals as are the ...

Kon Ichikawa

Edited by James Quandt
Subjects: Film & Media
Series: Cinematheque Ontario Monographs

Kon Ichikawa has long been internationally ac-knowledged as one of the most accomplished and prolific masters of Japanese cinema, in the exalted company of Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Yasujiro ...

The Satellite Sex

By Barbara M. Freeman
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Film & Media, Political Science

Have the Canadian media given feminism a bad name or have they been among the movement’s strongest supporters?
Is journalistic objectivity a myth when it comes to women’s voices, or doesn’t it ...

The Films of Joyce Wieland

Edited by Kathryn Elder
Subjects: Film & Media
Series: Cinematheque Ontario Monographs

A visionary who consistently explored new styles and approaches in her art and films, Joyce Wieland grappled with nationalism, feminism, environmentalism and spirituality. The Films of Joyce Wieland brings ...