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Canadian Film Studies
 Great Canadian Film Directors
Edited by George Melnyk
Great Canadian Film Directors is the first major study that reflects the cultural and linguistic diversity of Canada's most dynamic film directors. The 19 essays in this collection focus on each filmmaker's ability to create a vision that both reveals and redefines our national cultures Softcover, 468 pp. $34.95.
 Screening Gender, Framing Genre: Canadian Literature into Film
Peter Dickinson
In Screening Gender, Framing Genre, Peter Dickinson examines the history and theory of films adapted from Canadian literature through the lens of gender studies. Unique in its discussion of different adaptations, including films based on novels, plays, poetry, and Native orature, this study offers new readings of works by such well-known Canadian authors as Margaret Atwood, Marie-Claire Blais, and Michael Ondaatje, and by such important Canadian filmmakers as Mireille Dansereau, Claude Jutra, Robert LePage, and Bruce McDonald.
 The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas
Thomas Waugh
From pornography to autobiography, from the Cold War to the sexual revolution,
from rural roots and mythologies to the queer meccas of Vancouver, Toronto, and
Montreal, The Romance of Transgression in Canada is a history
of sexual representation on the large and small screen in English Canada and
Quebec. Softcover, 599 pp. $34.95.
 Northern Exposures: Photographing and Filming the Canadian North,
1920-1945
Peter Geller
Northern Exposures sheds new light on twentieth-century visual culture and
on the relationship between photographic ways of seeing and the expansion
of colonial power, while raising important questions about the role of
visual representation in interpreting the past. Generously illustrated
with over
eighty-five archival images from photographs and films of the period,
this book will appeal to anyone interested in Canadian and cultural history.
Softcover, 258 pp. $29.95.
 The Cinema of Canada
Jerry White, editor
The Canadian film industry, while often overlooked and overshadowed by its North
American cousin, has nevertheless produced some fascinaating films and directors,
including Atom Egoyan, Robert Lepage, Denys Arcand, Michael Snow and David Cronenberg. The
Cinema of Canada contains 24 essays, each on a different key film and
divides itself into three distinct categories: English-Canadian cinema, Quebecois
cinema and Aboriginal cinema. In so doing, it provides a fascinating historical
account of the development of film and documentary traditions across the diverse
national and regional communities in Canada. Softcover, 268 pp. $32.95.
 Film in Canada
Jim Leach
Film in Canada offers a comprehensive examination of Canadian cinema in
its political and cultural contexts. While highlighting the films
and filmmakers that have defined the national industry since the
1960s, this book also
looks at many of the factors that have influenced Canadian filmmaking,
including Canada's ethnic and linguistic diversity, the country's
national identity, and the emergence of a global media marketplace.
Softcover, 196 pp. $39.95.
 Film Festival Confidential
Bill Marshall
Toronto International Film Festival Special!
Signed copies available!
With an irresistable mix of gossip, glamour and glitz, Film Festival
Confidential is an all-access pass to the Toronto International Film
Festival, its famous stars and the parties. "An intriguing look at one of
the greatest film festivals in the world by one of the guys who started the whole
thing." - Norman Jewison. Softcover, 258 pp. $19.95.
 John Grierson: Trailblazer of Documentary Film
Gary Evans
By the time that John Grierson was appointed the first Commissioner of the
NFB in 1939, he was already as esteemed scholar and seasoned filmmaker
with a rich catalogue of life experiences. In the years that followed,
Grierson would go on to make a significant contribution to documentary
filmmaking, the study of mass media, and Canadian culture as a whole.
This terrific
biography brings to life Grierson's exciting personality and remarkable
achievements. Softcover, 187 pp. $15.95.
 One Man's Documentary
Graham McInnis
Graham McInnis was one of many talented young people recruited by
the charismatic John Grierson to build the National Film Board of
Canada during the
heady days of WWII. McInnis's memoir of these "days of high excitement" is
an insider's look at the NFM from 1939 to 1945, a vivid "orgin" story
of Canada's emerging world-class film studio that provides the NFB
with the kind of full-bodied vitality usually associated with the
great Hollywood
studios in their golden years. Softcover, 233 pp. $24.95.
 Understanding Movies
Third Canadian Edition
Louis Gianetti & Jim Leach
Long a staple of university courses, Understanding Movies is now available
in its third Canadian edition. In addition to its remarkable chapters
on film aesthetics, history, and theory, this special version includes sections
on nonfiction films and Canadian films. Both a comprehensive primer and an essential
reference
book, Understanding Movies: Third Canadian Edition is a necessary addition
to the library of any film student or movie buff. Softcover, 448 pp. $85.95.
 They
Came From Within: A History of Canadian Horror Cinema
Caelum Vatnsdal
Award-winning author and filmmaker Caelum Vatnsdal opens the vault of the Canadian horror
film genre from its inception to the present day to explore its history and cultural
implications. He unwinds the history of this neglected genre to learn," why
we fear what we fear and how it came to be that way." Lavishly illustrated
with rare stills and poster art, this extensively researched book will appeal
equally to horror fans and film studies specialists. Caelum Vatnsdal won the Carol Shields City of Winnipeg Book Award for Kino
Delirium: The Films of Guy Maddin.
 Once Upon a Time in Paradise: Canadians in the Golden Age of Hollywood
Charles Foster
These fascinating true stories chronicle the lives of several Canadians
who found success in Hollywood during the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Bobby Breen, Walter Pidgeon, Yvonne De Carlo, Jack Carson, Ruby Keeler,
and Raymond Massey and Walter Huston are just a few of the stars whose
real-life exploits trumped anything that they did on the silver screen.
Hardcover, 319 pp. $35.00.
 A Century of Canadian Cinema: Gerald Pratley's Feature Film Guide: 1900 to the Present
Gerald Pratley
Indulge your love of Canadian films with A Century of Canadian
Cinema. This guide contains films from the industry's earliest
beginnings in Canada right up to the latest releases. An exhaustively
complete resource, this book will delight both the fan and student
of Canadian cinema. Softcover, 416 pp. $29.95.
 Stage-Bound: Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and Quebecois Drama
Andre Loiselle
Since the 1990s many of Canada's best-known filmmakers, such as Denys Arcand,
John
Greyson, and Robert Lepage, have looked to the stage for inspiration. In Stage-Bound,
Andre Loiselle takes a comprehensive look at feature film adaptations of Canadian
and Quebecois plays produced over the last sixty years and examines the important
influence the theatre has had on Canadian film. Hardcover, 260 pp. $65.00.
 Dreaming in the Rain
David Spaner
Twenty years ago, Vancouver didn't register in the mind of any
film professional; however, today it is the site of countless major
film and television productions. David Spaner's marlevous chronicle
of West Coast Canada's emergence as a movie capital is a must-read
for anyone interested in Vancouver's ever-increasing role in the global
film industry. Softcover, 235 pp. $21.95.
 Reel Canadians
Interviews from the Canadian Film World
Angela Baldassarre
This tribute to Canadian film culture brings together interviews
with 29 of the most significant figures in our national film industry,
including: David Cronenberg, Bruce MacDonald, Sarah Polley, Clement
Virgo, Francois Girard, Mike Myers, Catherine O'Hara, and several
others. According to the author: "I let the artists speak for themselves
in the hopes that they could shed some light on what makes our culture
so marvelously unique." Softcover, 164 pp. $12.00.
 Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia
Mike Gasher
This timely book recounts British Columbia's rapid rise from relative obscurity
in the film world to its current status as "Hollywood North." Gasher
positions the provincial industry as a model for contemporary commercial film
production, strongly shaped by the perception of cinema as a medium of regional
development rather than of culture. Softcover, $24.95.
 Weird Sex and Snowshoes and other Canadian film phenomenon
Katherine Monk
with a foreward by Atom Egoyan
The title alone is worth the price...Monk, film critic for the Vancouver Sun
and CBC radio has compiled the first study in more than 20 years on Canadian film
in all its warped and struggling glory written a general audience. Screening the
past few decades, she pries apart the themes (weird sex and snowshoes among them),
the personalities and the movies themselves that have shaped and set what our national
cinema is. For those looking for names, they're not listed comprehensively in the
index; you're better flipping though the book itself. $26.95.
 Take
One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film
Edited by Wyndham Wise
Compiled by Wyndham Wise, the editor of Canada's most respected film magazine, this
book is the most up-to-date reference book on Canadian film and filmmakers. It combines
700 reviews and biographical listings with a detailed chronology of major events
in Canadian film and television history. Impressive for its breadth of coverage,
refreshing in its opinionated informality, this comprehensive and lively look at
Canadian film culture gives the student or general reader an ideal overview of Canadian
film culture. Softcover, 286 pp, $21.95.
 Quebec National Cinema
Bill Marshall
Written by a professor of Modern French Studies at Glasgow University, this is
the first comprehensive work in English on Quebec cinema. In it he tackles the question
of the role cinema plays in Quebec's view of itself as a nation. SC $27.95.
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