ABSTRACT

Canadian National Cinema explores the idea of the nation across Canada's film history, from early films of colonisation and white settlement such as The Wheatfields of Canada and Back to God's Country, to recent films like , LE Confessional Mon Oncle Antoine, Grey Fox, Highway 61, Kanehsatake, and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

Canadian national cinemas – ideology, difference and representation

chapter 1|26 pages

Immigration and Empire-Building

Film as a colonizing discourse

chapter 2|43 pages

Who Is Ethnographiable?

chapter 3|27 pages

Producing A National Cinema

chapter 4|93 pages

Narrating Nations/Ma(R)King Differences

chapter 5|35 pages

Visualizing First Nations

chapter 6|32 pages

Multicultural Fields Of Vision

chapter 7|33 pages

Screening Gender And Sexuality