The National Film Board of Canada, now in its seventh decade, is internationally acclaimed as a beacon of non-commercial filmmaking. In Projecting Canada Zoë Druick shows that the NFB, born out of a nation-building project, continues to be inextricably involved in the crises of nation, technology, and social scientific knowledge that shape the Canadian cultural landscape.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230), filmography (p. [209]-213), and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 070.1/80971
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780773576698 9780773531857
- LCCN
- PN1993.5.C3
- LCCN Item number
- D78 2007eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 237 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00225522 (OCoLC)713186512 (CaOOCEL)432968
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Illustrations 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Abbreviations 12
- Introduction: Documentary and Cultural Policy 16
- ONE: The National Film Board and Government 28
- TWO: Empire Communications and Documentary Film 42
- THREE: Government Documentary Film and Social Science 58
- FOUR: Nationalism and Internationalism at the National Film Board 86
- FIVE: Pages from the Story of the Way We Live: Film and Citizenship in the 1950s and Early 1960s 114
- SIX: New Media and New Forms of Citizenship: The NFB in the 1960s and 1970s 139
- SEVEN: Documenting Difference: The NFB in the 1980s and 1990s 176
- Conclusion 193
- Appendix: NFB Annual Budgets and Responsible Departments 198
- Notes 202
- Filmography 222
- Bibliography 228
- Index 244
- A 244
- B 244
- C 244
- D 245
- E 245
- F 245
- G 246
- H 246
- I 246
- J 246
- K 246
- L 247
- M 247
- N 247
- O 248
- P 248
- R 248
- S 249
- T 249
- U 249
- V 249
- W 249
- Y 250
- Z 250
