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Film and the City

The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema

By: George Melnyk

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Film and the City

The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema

By: George Melnyk

Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls “the nationalist-realist project,” a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of Anglo-centrism has been challenged by francophone and First Nations perspectives and the character of cities altered by a continued influx of immigrants and the development of cities as economic and technological centers. No longer primarily defined through the lens of rural nostalgia, Canadian urban identity is instead polyphonic, diverse, constructed through multiple discourses and mediums, an exchange rather than a strict orientation. Taking on the urban as setting and subject, filmmakers are ideally poised to create and reflect multiple versions of a single city. Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Léolo (1992), Mina Shum’s Double Happiness (1994), Clément Virgo’s Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and “urbanity”—the totality of urban culture and life. Drawing on film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation in Canadian studies, Melnyk considers how filmmakers, films, and urban audiences experience, represent, and interpret urban spatiality, visuality, and orality. In this way, Film and the City argues that Canadian narrative film of the postmodern period has aided in articulating a new national identity.

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319

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Athabasca University Press

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1927356598

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9781927356593

Judas Maccabaeus (1747)

An Oratorio for SATB Solo, SATB Chorus/Choir and Orchestra (Choral Score)

By: George Frideric Handel

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Judas Maccabaeus (1747)

An Oratorio for SATB Solo, SATB Chorus/Choir and Orchestra (Choral Score)

By: George Frideric Handel

Expertly arranged Choral for SATB with SATB Soli by George Frideric Handel from the Kalmus Edition series. This Choral is from the Baroque era.

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196

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Alfred Music

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1457481642

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Futurecast

What Today’s Trends Mean for Tomorrow’s World

By: George Barna

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Futurecast

What Today’s Trends Mean for Tomorrow’s World

By: George Barna

The world and culture are changing at a pace beyond anything ever seen in history. But where will all these changes lead? We need accurate information that will give us a real sense of what’s happening now—and what’s about to happen—in key areas of our lives, including family life, technology, media and entertainment, attitudes and values, and religious beliefs and behavior. In Futurecast, bestselling author and renowned researcher George Barna presents a timely look at the world we’re creating every day. He offers solid data to show the path society is on, a guide to what’s coming next, and unparalleled insights into how we can prepare for the changes that lie ahead.

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274

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1414360797

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9781414360799

The Journal of George Fox

By: George Fox

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The Journal of George Fox

By: George Fox

Still commonly read today, The Journal of George Fox is the autobiography of one of the founders of the Quaker movement. British preacher GEORGE FOX (1624-1691) here details his spiritual journey from the time he was a young boy, through his spiritual crisis at the age of nineteen-a time of darkness during which Fox received his first insights from the Lord and came to the realization that priests were not necessary for a spiritual life-and the development of his own regimen and interpretation of the Bible, laying the basis for the Religious Society of Friends. Anyone interested in Quakers, Christian sects, and the evolution of religious belief will find Fox's autobiography a unique look at an influential religious figure.

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401

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Cosimo, Inc.

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1602064326

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9781602064324

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Film and the City

Film and the City

Judas Maccabaeus (1747)

Judas Maccabaeus (1747)

Futurecast

Futurecast

The Journal of George Fox

The Journal of George Fox

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