Canadian Film

Canadian Film is a historical overview of film in both English and French Canada, from its early use to encourage immigration and, in Quebec, to promote traditional fidelities, to its struggles to project a uniquely Canadian identity and experience. All major modes of film are discussed—the documentary tradition from the NFBs wartime production to the award winners of the eighties, fictional film from Quebecs New Wave and TV docudrama to the tax-shelter era and regional film-making—as well as experimental and animated film. Both of which have earned Canadians an international reputation. With an up-to-date bibliography, this comprehensive survey for the general reader will also be useful to students of Canadian film.