Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations
Praface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: What Is Canadian Cinema and What Happened to It at the End of the Twentieth Century?

1.Canadian Cinema 1896-1986: Invisibility and Difference
2.The Anxiety of Influence: David Cronenberg and the Canadian Imagination
3.Time Capsules: The Eighties Worlds of Denys Arcand and Patricia Rozema
4.Crossover Icons: The Faces of Canadian Cinema
5.Quebecois Auteurs: The New Internationalism of Jean-Claude Lauzon, Léa Pool, and Robert Lepage
6.Cronenberg's Mutant Progeny: Genre film-making around the Turn of the Millennium
7.The Death of the Author? The Case of Atom Egoyan
8.The Canadian Mosaic: Margins and Ethnicities
9.Film-making at the Heart of the World: Guy Maddin

Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited

Promotional Information

'Gracefully written and gratifying to read, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s will appeal to a wide range of cinephiles. David L. Pike adds a unique and important new viewpoint to film studies, introducing a fresh breeze of valuable insights to the field along the way. Pike's fluent sensitivity to many complex and subtle issues is truly admirable, and his expositions on individual filmmakers range from the interesting to the truly illuminating.' -- William Beard, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta

About the Author

David L. Pike is a professor in the Department of Literature at American University.

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