The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema

Janine Marchessault is Professor of Cinema and Media at York University. She is the author of Ecstatic Worlds: Media, Utopias and Ecologies (2017); Cosmic Media: Marshall McLuhan (2005); and (co)editor of numerous collections including 3D Cinema and Beyond (w/ D. Adler et al 2013); Reimagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67 (w/ M. Gagnon 2014); and Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban (w/ M. Darroch 2014).Will Straw is James McGill Professor of Urban Media Studies in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 1950s America (2006) and an editor or co-editor of over 20 volumes of scholarship, including the Cambridge Companion of Rock and Pop, Circulation and the City, Formes urbaines, Intersections of Media and Communications: Concepts and Critical Frameworks and Accounting for Culture: Thinking through Cultural Citizenship.

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Cinema is a welcome addition to the literature on Canadian cinema and screen practices offering essays that will work well as course readings but which also offer insights into emerging areas or turning to areas that have been previously underexamined (musicality in Canadian cinema anyone?).

• IntroductionI. Frames1. Three Canadian Film Policy FrameworksIra Wagman2. Canadian Cinema and the Intellectual MilieuRichard Cavell3. On the Road: Canadian Cinema and the WorldJoumane Chahine4. Landscape as Cinematic EffectJohanne Sloan5. Movie Envy: Cinema in the White Cube (Montreal, 1995-2015)Olivier AsselinII. Cultures6. (Re)Claiming Cultural Identity: The NFB's Eskimo Legends and Inuit Animation from Cape DorsetSuzanne Buchan7. Canadian Indigenous Cinema: From Alanis Obomsawin to the Wapikoni MobileKarine Bertrand8. The Polarities and Hybridities of Arctic CinemasScott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport9. Diasporic Intimacy: Chinese-Canadian Documentary and the Poetics of RelationLily Cho10. Canadian Cinema and its BordersGraciela Martínez-ZalceIII. Cities/Places11. Regional Scenes and Canadian Screens: Film in Atlantic CanadaDarrell Varga12. A Poetics of DiscretionMarion Froger13. The Emotional Geographies of Quebec CinemaDaniel Laforest14. Toronto on ScreenIan RobinsonIV. Sensibilities15. Quebec Cinema as Global CinemaWilliam Marshall16. Stand Tall: Winnipeg Cinema and the Civic ImaginaryAndrew Burke17. Still Here, Still Queer? Rethinking Queer Canadian Cinemas/Canadian Cinemas QueeredThomas Waugh and Fulvia Massimi with Lisa Aalders18. Political Modernism, Policy Environments and Digital Daring: The Changing Politics and Practice of Cine-Feminism in Quebec, 1967-2015Brenda Longfellow19. From Expanded to Intimate Cinemas in Canadian Experimental Film/VideoMonika Kin GagnonV. Forms and Genres20. The Bloody Brood: Canadian Horror Cinema-Past and PresentScott Preston21. Popular Quebec Cinema and the Appeal of Folk HomogeneityAndré Loiselle22. The Musicality of Canadian CinemaMichael Brendan Baker23. The World Navigate: Interactive Documentaries in CanadaJessica Mulvogue24. The Gaming TurnBruno Lessard