Rain, Drizzle, Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada

Darrell Varga

University of Calgary Press, 2009 - Performing Arts - 318 pages

This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies ? an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture. -- Zoë Druick, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Rain/Drizzle/Fog is the first scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. With contributors from across the country, the book provides a broad historical overview of film and television in the region, as well as essays on specific topics in contemporary popular television (Trailer Park Boys), early television (Don Messer's Jubilee) and the work of filmmakers such as Bill MacGillivray, Andrea Dorfman, Thom Fitzgerald, and others. This collection is informed by a critical perspective on prevailing stereotypes of culture in the Atlantic region, as well as by history and political-economy debates on the relationship between Atlantic and central Canada. It is also in large part a response to the continued marginalization of regional film and television within the field of Canadian film studies, which has traditionally been dominated by a critical and artistic canon from central Canada and Quebec. Rain/Drizzle/Fog challenges the prevailing tendency to homogenize the complexity of Canadian cultural production and instead celebrates the regional distinctions that make Atlantic film and television unique.

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User Review  - Eileen - Goodreads

some very interesting essays on marginal canadian film, especially "Guys with Brylcreem..." by Jerry White and "On the Fringe..." by Tracy Y Zhang

Contents

• Metropolitanism Place and Meaning in NFB Films Colin Howell and Peter L Twohig: 1
• 2 A Journey through Acadian Cinema Pierre Veronneau translated by Shana McGuire: 23
• The Introduction of Motion Pictures to the Town of Truro Nova Scotia 18971914 Gregory Canning: 47
• A Short History of Newfoundland Film Noreen Golfman: 67
• Gordon Pinsents Film Tale About Tradition Progress and Resistance Malek Khouri: 83
• Form Community and Politics in the NFBs Newfoundland Project Jerry White: 101
• What Don Messers Maritime Nostalgia Meant to the Nation Jen Vanderburgh: 150
• Gullages Trailer Park Boys and Representations of Canadian Space in Global Hollywood John McCullough: 151
• 171 Grassroots Film and Video Movements in Halifax 1960s1980s Tracy Y Zhang: 171
• Thom Fitzgeralds The Movie of the Week Bruce Barber: 199
• Visualizing the Vernacular in Andrea Dorfmans Parsley Days Andrew Burke: 219
• 12 The Social Production of Place in Four Films About Artists Darrell Varga: 235
• 13 Searching for Portia White Sylvia D Hamilton: 259
• Select Bibliography: 296
• Contributors: 297
• Index: 301
• Back Cover: 323

About the author

Darrell Varga is a filmmaker and educator living in Halifax.Darrell Varga is a filmmaker and educator living in Halifax. He holds a Canada Research Chair Award in Film Studies.
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Bibliographic information

• Title: Rain, Drizzle, Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada; Volume 2 of Cinemas off centre series
• Editor: Darrell Varga
• Contributor: University of Calgary
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Calgary Press, 2009
• ISBN: 1552382486, 9781552382486
• Length: 318 pages
• Subjects: History / Canada / General; Performing Arts / Film & Video / History & Criticism; Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism; Social Science / Media Studies