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Mon. Sept. 11	Introduction City of Gold. Colin Low/Roman Kroitor, Canada, 1957 (22 min) Very Nice, Very Nice. Arthur Lipsett, 1961. Our Marilyn. Brenda Longfellow, Canada, 1987 (27 min.)
Wed. Sept. 13	Introduction: Readings and Assignments
Mon. Sept. 18	Pioneers Second Special Service Battalion Canadian Infantry. Edison Co. USA, 1899 Duke of York at Quebec. Edison Co. USA, 1901 The Muscial Ride. Edison Co. USA, 1901. Fire Department on Runners. Edison Co. USA, 1901. Panoramic View of the Gorge Railway. Edison Co. USA, 1901. Packers on the Trail. Edison Co. USA, 1901. CPR Ride in the Rockies. Thomas Edison. USA, 1898-1902. Winter Activities in Canada. Thomas Edison. USA, 1894-1912. The Great Toronto Fire. George Scott Co. 1904 War Canoe Races, Toronto. Edison Co. USA, 1904. International Contest for the Heavyweight Championship. Miles Bros. Co. USA, 1907. Mes Esperances. Leo-Ernest Ouimet. Quebec, 1908. An Unselfish Love: A Story of Western Canada. CPR Edison Series, 1910. In the Land of War Canoes: Kwakiutl Indian life on the Northwest Coast Edward S. Curtis, Canada, 1914 (47 min.; excerpt) Clan Donald: A British Farm Colony. Dept. of Colonization & Development, Canadian Pacific Railway, 1925.
Wed. Sept. 20	Doug Fetherling (ed.), Documents in Canadian Film [DCF] (Toronto: Broadview Press, 1988), 7-22. George Melnyk, One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema [Melnyk] (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004),15-29. Manjunath Pedakur, "Roots of Dependency, 1906-1930," Canadian Dreams & American Control: The Political Economy of the Canadian Film Industry (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990), 45-78.
Mon. Sept. 25	Shipman; Quota Quickies Back to God's Country. Nell Shipman/ David M. Hartford, USA/Canada, 1919. Saving the Sagas. B.E. Norrish, 1929. Secrets of Chinatown (The Black Robe). Fred Newmeyer, 1935. Rhapsody in Two Languages. Gordon Sparling, 1934. Heritage. J. Booth Scott, 1939. The Settler/L'Abitis. Bernard Devlin, 1953.
Wed. Sept. 27	Melnyk, 30-48 & 48-57. Ted Magder, "Film, the State, and the Question of Dependency," Canada's Hollywood: The Canadian State and Feature Films (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993), 3-18.
Mon. Oct. 2	National Film Board: to Show Canada to Canadians The Peoples of Canada. Various, 1941. Women Are Warriors. Jane Marsh, 1942. The Mask of Nippon. Margaret Palmer, 1942. Wings on her Shoulder. Jane Marsh, 1943. Main Street Canada. Alistair Taylor, 1945. Listen to the Prairies. Gudrun Parker, 1945. Mental Mechanisms: The Feeling of Rejection. Robert Anderson, 1947.
Wed. Oct. 4	Melnyk, 58-77. John Grierson, "A Film Policy for Canada," DCF, 51-67. Charles Acland, "National Dreams, International encounters: The Formation of Canadian Film Culture in the 1930s," Canadian Journal of Film Studies, vol. 3 no.1, 3-26. Peter Morris, "Re-Thinking Grierson: The Ideology of John Grierson," in P. Veronneau, M. Dorland & S. Feldman eds. Dialogue: Canadian and Quebec Cinema (Montreal: Mediatexte, 1987), 21- 56.
Mon. Oct. 9	Thanksgiving: No class
Wed. Oct. 11	Discussion with Special Guest Robert Lantos, Producer (Serendipity Films) Assigned Reading: Benedict Anderson, "Introduction," Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1991), 1-9. Ian Jarvie, "National Cinema: A Theoretical Assessment," in M. Hjort & S. Mackenzie eds. Cinema & Nation (London: Routledge 2000), 75-87. Joyce Nelson, "The Curse of Nations," The Colonized Eye: Rethinking the Grierson Legend (Toronto: Between the Lines, 1988), 59-79.
Mon. Oct. 16	Corral. Colin Low, 1954. Paul Tomkowitz: Street Railway Switchman. Roman Kroitor, 1954. Backbreaking Leaf. Terence McCartney-Filgate, 1959. Glenn Gould: On the Record. Wolf Koenig & Roman Kroitor, 1959. Lonely Boy. Wolf Koenig & Roman Kroitor, 1961. V for Victory. Norman McLaren, 1941. Begone Dull Care. Norman McLaren, 1949. Neighbours. Norman McLaren, 1952. A Chairy Tale. Norman McLaren & Claude Jutra, 1957. Pas de Deux. Norman McLaren, 1965. In the Labyrinth (1967). Roman Kroitor & Colin Low, 1979.
Wed. Oct. 18	Melnyk, 70-77. D.B. Jones, "The Canadian Film Board Unit B," New Challenges for Documentary, 133-147. Bruce Elder, "On the Candid-Eye Movement," in S. Feldman & J. Nelson eds. Canadian Film Reader (Toronto: Peter MArin, 1977), 86-93. Barry Keith Grant, "From Obscurity in Ottawa to Fame in Freedomland: Lonely Boy and the Cultural Meaning of Paul Anka," in J. Leach & J. Sloniowski, eds., Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries, (Toronto: UTP, 2003), 48-60. Richard Hancox, "Geography and Myth in Paul Tomkowicz: coordinates of National Identity," Candid Eyes, 13-30.
Mon. Oct. 23	The Quiet Revolution & 'le direct' Les Raquetteurs. Gilles Groulx & Michel Brault, 1958. (15 min.) La Lutte. Michel Brault, 1961. (28 min.) Golden Gloves. Michael Brault, 1961.( 28 min.)
Wed. Oct. 25	Bill Marshall, "The Cinema of Modernization," in Quebec National Cinema (Kingston: McGill-Queen's UP, 2001), 46-74. David Clandfield, "From the Picturesque to the Familiar: Films of the French Unit of the NFB (1958-1964)," Take Two: A Tribute to Film in Canada, ed. Seth Feldman (Toronto: Irwin, 1984), 112-24.
Mon. Oct. 30	Poetic Documentary Pour la suite du monde. Pierre Perrault, 1963.
Wed. Nov. 1	David Clandfield, "Linking Community Renewal to National Identity; The Filmmakers' Role in Pour la suite du monde," in Candid Eyes, 71-86. David Clandfield, "Pour la suite du monde & La bête lumineuse," Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2004), 13-25 & 105-114.
Mon. Nov. 6	Challenge for Change The Things I Cannot Change. Tanya Ballantyne, 1967 (56 min.). VTR St. Jacques & VTR Rosedale. Rosedale Citizens Action Committee & Anton Karsh, 1974 (31min.) You Are on Indian Land. George Stoney, 1969 (37 min.) Fogo Island. Colin Low, 1968 (17 min.)
Wed. Nov. 8	D.B. Jones, "Challenge for Change: The Artist Nearly Abdicates," in Movies and Memoranda: An Interpretative History of the National Film Board of Canada (Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute, 1981), 157-175. Marie Kurchak, "What Challenge? What Change?" in S. Feldman & J. Nelson eds. Canadian Film Reader (Toronto: Peter Martin, 1977), 120-127. Colin Low, "Grierson and 'Challenge for Change,'" in The John Grierson Project, John Grierson and the NFB (Toronto: ECW Press, 1984), 111-119.
Mon. Nov. 13	Beyond the NFB The Loon's Necklace. RadfordCrawley, 1949 (10 min). Skidrow. Allan King, 1956 (37 min). The Mills of the Gods: Vietnam. Beryl Fox, CBC, 1965 (60 min).
Wed. Nov. 15	Melnyk, 91-99. F.R. Crawley, "Have Independent Films a Look-in (1951)?" DCF, 82-88. Gerald Pratley, "Film in Canada (1955)," DCF, 89-101. Kevin Dowler, "The Cultural Industries Policy Apparatus," in M. Dorland ed., The Cultural Industries in Canada: Problems, Policies and Prospects (Toronto: Lorimer, 1996), 328-346.
Mon. Nov. 20	Feature Film Industry Dawns: Quebec Mon Oncle Antoine. Claude Jutra, 1970.
Wed. Nov. 22	Claude Jutra : an unfinished story. Paule Baillargeon, 2002 (82 min.) Melnyk, 78-90. Michel Houle, "Some Ideological and Thematic Aspects of the Quebec Cinema," in P. Véronneau & P. Handling eds., Self-Portrait: Essays on the Canadian and Quebec Cinemas (Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute, 1980), 159-182. Jim Leach, "Between Yesterday and Tomorrow: Mon oncle Antoine," in Claude Jutra: Filmmaker (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999), 121-142. Martin Knelman, "Claude Jutra in Exile," DCF, 215-229.
Mon. Nov. 27	Feature Film Industry Dawns: English Canada Goin' Down the Road. Donald Shebib, 1970.
Wed. Nov. 29	Melnyk, 100Can, 100-112.
Mon. Dec. 4	Re-Presenting the FLQ Crisis Action: The October Crisis of 1970. Robin Spry, 1973. (87 min.) Les Ordres. Michel Brault, 1974. (109 min.)
Wed. Dec. 6	Term Test HAPPY HOLIDAYS!