Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction: Working on Screen 1
5. PART ONE: Workers, History, and Historiography
6. 1. In Search of the Canadian Labour Film 25
7. 2. Communists, Class, and Culture in Canada 46
8. 3. The Image of the ‘People’ in the CBC’s Canada: A People’s History 73
9. PART TWO: Work, Gender, and Sexuality
10. 4. Work It Girl! Sex, Labour, and Nationalism in Valérie 95
11. 5. Not Playing, Working: Class, Masculinity, and Nation in the Canadian Hockey Film 113
12. 6. Other-ing the Worker in Canadian ‘Gay Cinema’: Thom Fitzgerald’s The Hanging Garden 134
13. 7. Whose Museum Is It, Anyway? Discourses of Resistance in the Adaptation of The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum into Margaret’s Museum 148
14. PART THREE: Dirty Work
15. 8. Activating History: Sara Diamond and the Women’s Labour History Project 161
16. 9. Dirty Laundry: Re-imagining the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Construction of the Nation 178
17. PART FOUR: Working on National Cinema
18. 10. Look like a Worker and Act like a Worker: Stereotypical Representations of the Working Class in Quebec Fiction Feature Films 207
19. 11. Inscriptions of Class and Nationalism in Canadian ‘Realist’ Cinema: Final Offer and Canada’s Sweetheart: The Saga of Hal C. Banks 235
20. 12. Rude and the Representation of Class Relations in Canadian Film 246
21. 13. Counter Narratives, Class Politics, and Metropolitan Dystopias: Representations of Globalization in Maelström, waydowntown, and La moitié gauche du frigo 268
22. Selected Bibliography 283
23. Contributors 291