Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-46 (Cinemas Off Centre) - ISBN:1552381994

Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-46 (Cinemas Off Centre)

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Product Description: The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has a storied history as the progenitor & stalwart defender of Canadian cinematic culture. It was created to foster a national film industry & to promote to a national & international audience a voice that was uniquely Canadian. In "Filming Politics", author Malek Khouri examines carefully a period at the National Film Board when its creative output & guiding principles reflected less the cultural mainstream, identifying instead more with the surging wave of International Communism. Beginning with an analysis of the political, cultural, & social milieu under which the institution was founded, Khouri highlights how these dynamics impacted the creation of the NFB. He details the ideological background of the NFB's founders & filmmakers, positing that these factors ultimately shaped the emergence of a counter-hegemonic discourse as evidenced through the portrayal of the working class. Khouri identifies & uncovers the extent of the institution's filmic practices & representations of issues such as the Great Depression, democracy, labour unions, unemployment, & the fight against Fascism. In particular, it was during the war years that the institution earnestly pursued a discourse that presented the working class as agents of social change, & openly celebrated the Soviet Union as a war ally & leading opponent to fascism, & in due course as a future partner in peace. "Filming Politics" presents a vivid ethnography of a social class, a cultural institution, & a political subculture, making available for the first time a comprehensive classification & overview of the cinematic & political foundations that informed this now esteemed cultural institution.

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