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Doctor Who
A comprehensive account of Doctor Who as a television series and product of popular culture.
British Film
Publisher Description
The Films of Denys Arcand
Denys Arcand is best known outside Canada for three films that were nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film: The Decline of the American Empire (1986), Jesus of Montreal (1989), and The Barbarian Invasions (2003), the last of which won the Award. Yet Arcand has been making films since the early 1960s. When he started making films, Quebec was rapidly transforming from a relatively homogeneous community, united by its Catholic faith and French language and culture, into a more fragmented modern society. The Films of Denys Arcand sheds light on how Arcand addressed the impact of these changes from the 1960s, when the long-drawn-out debate on Quebec's possible separation from the rest of Canada began, to the present, in which the traditional cultural heritage has been further fragmented by the increasing presence of diasporic communities. His career and films offer an ideal case study for exploring the contradictions and tensions that have shaped Quebec cinema and culture in a period of increasing globalization and technological change.
Film in Canada
Offering a current and comprehensive analysis of Canadian cinema in its political and cultural contexts, this new edition of Film in Canada introduces students to a cinema that is as diverse as the country itself. Major developments in Canadian filmmaking are explored in depth, from directcinema and the national-realist films of the 1960s to later avant-garde projects and beyond. With detailed discussions on recent and well-established works by prominent Canadian filmmakers, along with new film commentaries and movie stills, this text is an invaluable resource for film students andfilm lovers alike.
The Best Laid Plans
Explores the significance of the heist film genre.
A Possible Cinema
Examines the work of Alain Tanner, the most important filmmaker to emerge from the new Swiss cinema in the late 1960s.
Messidor
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Murder's A Tough Business
"Murder's A Tough Business is an enlightening and entertaining book that explains how police investigate the most serious crime of all. Murder.The author, Jim Leach, shares his insight and expertise developed through four decades of law enforcement to produce an interesting, easy to read, anatomy of police work.The book can make professional law enforcement officers even better. If you are a TV crime story fan, your favorite show will become much more enjoyable, when you understand the "WHY" and, not just the "HOW"."Jim and I worked together in law enforcement for years investigating some of the most hideous cases. I believe that Jim would use his best investigative skills as an author and p...
Claude Jutra
Through close readings of Jutra's major films, Jim Leach analyses their distinctive cinematic qualities and discusses the responses they have received from reviewers and critics. He focuses both on the films and the historical and cultural contexts in which they were made, arguing that critics have frequently used inappropriate criteria to judge them and that these misunderstandings reveal much about attitudes to Canadian cinema in general. Jutra's films are shown to reflect the instability of their cinematic and cultural contexts and raise important questions about nationhood. Jutra always identified himself as a separatist and his films were shaped by the rapid changes in Quebec society during the Quiet Revolution and by the political tensions of the sixties and seventies. At the same time his work was often appreciated by English Canadian critics and audiences and was affected by federal film policy and institutions. Although Jutra died in 1986, his films and career still have much to tell us about Canadian cinema and media production, and about the complex cultural contexts that underlie the ongoing debates on Canadian and Quebec nationhood.
