Table of Contents
- The Young, the Restless, and the Dead, edited by George
Melnyk
- The young, the restless, and the dead: An introduction
- George Melnyk
- The Young
- 1: ""It needed to go to a dark place"" Michael Dowse
interviewed by Bart Beatty
- The Restless
- 2: ""The funniest people in the world are Canadian"": The boys
from Anagram Pictures Blake Corbett, Andrew Currie, and Trent
Carlson interviewed by Peggy Thompson
- 3: ""I'm shockingly unchanged since I picked up a camera"" Guy
Maddin interviewed by George Melnyk
- 4: ""Your secrets shouldn't be so secret"" Mina Shum
interviewed by Jacqueline Levitin
- 5: ""I like telling stories that are off the beaten track""
Lynee Stopewich interviewed by Kalli Paakspuu
- 6. ""It's a job and you have to do it every day"" Gary Burns
interviewed by George Melnyk
- 7. ""I like to work one-on-one"" Anne Wheeler interviewed by
Peggy Thompson
- The Dead
- 8. ""It is an image that I have retained from infancy""
Jean-Claude Lauzon interviewed by Claude Racine; Translated from
the French by Jim Leach
- Filmography
- Contributors
- Contributors
- Bart Beaty is an associate professor in the Faculty of
Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He is the
author of Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture
(University Press of Mississippi, 2005), Unpopular Culture:
Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s (University of
Toronto Press, 2006), and, with Rebecca Sullivan, Canadian
Television Today (University of Calgary Press, 2006). His
monograph, David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, is the
inaugural book in the Canadian Cinema series published by the
University of Toronto Press (forthcoming, 2008).
- Jim Leach is a professor in the Department of Communication,
Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. His publications
include Claude Jutra, Filmmaker (McGill-Queen's University Press,
1999) and British Film (Cambridge University Press, 2004). He is
also the author (with Louis Giannetti) of Understanding Movies
(fourth Canadian edition) (Pearson, 2005) and co-editor (with
Jeannette Sloniowski) of Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian
Documentaries (University of Toronto Press, 2003). His most recent
book is Film in Canada (Oxford University Press, 2006).
- Jacqueline Levitin is a filmmaker and film historian-critic who
teaches at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her recent film
work has been in ethnographic documentary (""Building Bridge: A
Housing Project for Women"" [2003]), live video collaborations for
dance and theatre, and an experimental documentary, Mahjong &
Chicken Feet (2008), on China's relation with her Jewish
""others."" She is the co-editor of Women Filmmakers: Refocusing
(2003), a dialogue between women filmmakers, critics, and
theorists.
- George Melnyk is an associate professor of Canadian Studies and
Film Studies, Faculty of Communication and Culture, at the
University of Calgary. His publications on cinema include One
Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema (2004), My Mother Is an Alien: Ten
Takes on Life and Film (2004), and Great Canadian Film Directors
(2007). He is currently completing a monograph on urbanity in
Canadian cinema and organizing the second volume of this
series.
- Kalli Paakspuu teaches at York University and is a
Genie-winning filmmaker, new media, and theatre artist. Her
dissertation, ""Rhetorics of Colonialism in Visual Documentation""
(University of Toronto), examines early cross-cultural
communication and the dialogical storytelling on both sides of the
camera. Her publications and art projects specialize in visual,
oral, and mnemonic knowledge practices. She is developing a
feature-film musical based on Liliane Atlan's play Les Mers Rouges,
about the Sephardic Jews exodus from Spain, after directing a
successful English world premiere at Toronto's Fringe Festival in
2005.
- Peggy Thompson is an associate professor in the Creative
Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. She is the
screenwriter of the feature films The Lotus Eaters (1993), for
which she won a Genie Award for Best Screenplay, and Better Than
Chocolate. She was one of the producers on the feature film Saint
Monica (2002) and most recently was one of the executive producers
on the documentary The Oldest Basketball Team in the World
(2006).
About the Author
George Melnyk is an associate professor of Canadian studies
and film studies in the Faculty of Communication and Culture,
University of Calgary. He is a cultural historian who specializes
in Canadian film and literature. The author and editor of almost
twenty books, he is best known for his two-volume Literary History
of Alberta (1998 - 99) and One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema
(2004).
Reviews
"Interview books can have the advantage of enhancing the
accessibility and plasticity of a topic, and Melnyk, who tagged
this collection in an interview as a 'fun little book' that is to
'capture the fun of filmmaking', certainly zeros in on this effect
by including storyboards, film stills, photos and a very clearly
arranged layout. Moreover his selection of directors is far from
being wellworn, Guy Maddin being the only real big name among
Michael Dowse, the Anagram Picture boys Blake Corbet, Andrew Currie
and Trent Carlson, Mina Shum, Lynne Stopkewich, Gary Burns, Anne
Wheeler and Jean-Claude Lauzon, thus presenting a panorama." -
Johannes Springer, University of Bremen, British Journal of
Canadian Studies, Volume 23 (Number 2), 2010
``The Young, the Restless, and the Dead will contribute to putting
Canadian filmmakers, upcoming and established, on the national and
international map.'' -- Claudia Kotte -- H-Net Reviews in the
Humanities and Social Sciences, April 2009, 200904
``The interviews ... are certainly accessible, and the relevant
expertise of the participating interviewer leads to some insightful
questions about filmmaking process and the filmmaker's experiences
and ideals.... As a teacher of Canadian film I imagine this is the
sort of book which might capture the interest of new scholars with
its attractive presentation and the personal insights that the
interview format elicits.... [A] worthwhile addition to a Canadian
film scholar's library and will hopefully increase attention to
Canadian film both in Canada and beyond.'' -- Rachel Walls,
University of Nottingham, UK -- Scope: An Online Journal of Film
and Television Studies, Februrary 2011, 201103
