Shooting from the East: Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic Tapa blanda - 2015

Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015. Paperback. pp. 374. 8vo. Black & white illustrations. Light shelfwear, slight curling to front cover, small ink mark to rear cover. Faint spotting to a few pages; good+.

McGill-Queen's University Press. Fine. 2015. Softcover. 0773546294 . Stiff clean crisp book, about new. ; 158.75 X 0.9 X 234.95 inches; 384 pages; Atlantic Canada has a rich tradition of storytelling and creativity that has extended to critical and audience praise for films from the region’s four provinces. Until now there has been no comprehensive history of this diverse body of work. In Shooting from the East, Darrell Varga traces the emergence of art cinema in the 1970s and ’80s, and subsequent rise of a contemporary commercial feature film and television industry by way of representative examples of a great range of titles, including The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood, Life Classes, The Disappeared, and Trailer Park Boys. He provides analysis of documentary filmmaking to emphasize concerns such as the establishment of the regional National Film Board studio and the influence of broadcast policy, but also considers significant recurring themes including the environment, the… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.