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Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga, eds. Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2006)
IDEALLY, A COLLECTION of essays on a cinematic genre or other related category (feminism, for example, or a national cinema) should accomplish a number of goals. The essays should collectively illuminate films most of us know well, introduce us to films we have missed or neglected, argue for a new interpretation of films we have perhaps treated like poor relations, and finally provide the collection with some overarching themes. This collection of 13 essays edited by Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga (who also contribute essays of their own and an introduction) succeeds admirably on all counts.
The essays are neatly divided into four categories: "Workers, History, and Historiography," with essays on labour films, the Canadian Communist Party, and CBC'S landmark Canada: A People's History; "Work, Gender, and Sexuality," with more narrowly focused essays on the salacious classic Valerie, hockey films, gay themes in The Hanging Garden, and the well-known Margaret's Museum; "Dirty Work," with essays on the Women's Labour History... |
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