The Art of Craft: The Films of Andrea Dorfman

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction
5. Canadian Women Filmmakers: Re-imaging Authorship, Nationality, and Gender 3
6. Feminist/Feminine Binaries and the Body Politic
7. The Art of Craft: The Films of Andrea Dorfman 25
8. Feminist Ambiguity in the Film Adaptations of Lynne Stopkewich 43
9. On the Edge of Genre: Anne Wheeler’s Interrogating Maternal Gaze 67
10. Fluidity: Joyce Wieland’s Political Cinema 95
11. Queer Nation and Popular Culture
12. The Art of Making Do: Queer Canadian Girls Make Movies 115
13. Feminist Filmmaking and the Cinema of Patricia Rozema 127
14. Léa Pool: The Art of Elusiveness 141
15. Transiting Nationality and the Battlefields of Otherness
16. On the Field of Battle: First Nations Women Documentary Filmmakers 165
17. Eradicating Erasure: The Documentary Film Practice of Sylvia Hamilton 185
18. Women, Liminality, and “Unhomeliness” in the Films of Mina Shum 203
19. Beyond Tradition and Modernity: The Transnational Universe of Deepa Mehta 217
20. Les Québécoises 233
21. Contributors 251
22. Index 255
23. Books in the Film+Media Studies Series 272