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Books by Darrell Varga






Shooting from the East(1st Edition)
Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic
by Darrell Varga
Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2015 by Mcgill-Queens University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-4629-5, ISBN: 0-7735-4629-4

"Atlantic Canada has a rich tradition of storytelling and creativity that has extended to critical and audience praise for films from the region’s four provinces. Until now there has been no comprehensive history of this diverse body of work. In Shooting from the East, Darrell Varga traces the emergence of art cinema in the 1970s and ’80s, and subsequent rise of a contemporary commercial feature film and television industry by way of r ..."






Shooting from the East
Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic (Hardcover)
by Darrell Varga
Hardcover, Published 2015 by Mcgill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-4628-8, ISBN: 0-7735-4628-6






John Walker's Passage(1st Edition)
(Canadian Cinema)
by Darrell Varga
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-1419-2, ISBN: 1-4426-1419-6

"John Walker is one of Canada's most prolific and important documentary filmmakers and is known for his many thoughtful, personally inflected films. His masterwork, Passage, centres on Sir John Franklin's failed expedition to find the final link of the Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Canadian Arctic. It also gives us the story of John Rae, the Scottish explorer who discovered the fate of Franklin ..."






Rain/ Drizzle/ Fog(1st Edition)
Film and Television in Atlantic Canada
by Darrell Varga, Pierre Veronneau, Andrew Burke, Colin Howell, Bruce Barber, Peter L. Twohig, Tracy Y. Zhang, Sylvia D. Hamilton, Gregory Canning, Noreen Golfman, Malek Khouri, Jerry White, Jan Vanderburg, John Mccullough Iii, John Mccullough, University Of Calgary
Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Calgary Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55238-248-6, ISBN: 1-55238-248-6

"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 : Film and Television in Atlantic Canada is the first scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. With contributors from across the country, the book provides a broad historical ov ..."






John Walker's Passage
(Canadian Cinema, Band 9)
by Darrell Varga
Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-4608-7, ISBN: 1-4426-4608-X

"John Walker is one of Canada's most prolific and important documentary filmmakers and is known for his many thoughtful, personally inflected films. His masterwork, Passage, centres on Sir John Franklin's failed expedition to find the final link of the Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Canadian Arctic. It also gives us the story of John Rae, the Scottish explorer who discovered the fate of Franklin ..."






Working on Screen(1st Edition)
Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema (Cultural Studies)
by Malek Khouri, Darrell Varga
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-9076-8, ISBN: 0-8020-9076-1

"As themes in film studies literature, work and the working class have long occupied a peripheral place in the evaluation of Canadian cinema, often set aside in the critical literature for the sake of a unifying narrative that assumes a division between Québécois and English Canada's film production, a social-realist documentary aesthetic, and what might be called a 'younger brother' relationship with the United States.In Working on Scre ..."






Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection(1st Edition)
by Rebeca Helfer, Malek Khouri, Darrell Varga, Feisal G. Mohamed
Hardcover, 408 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-9067-6, ISBN: 0-8020-9067-2

"What is the art of memory? Rebeca Helfer's intertextual study Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection offers a fresh perspective on the significance of this ancient mnemonic technique to Edmund Spenser's writing and, through this lens, explores the art’s complex historical and literary reception.Beginning with the origins of mnemonic strategies in epic tales, Helfer examines how the art of memory speaks to debates about poetry and i ..."






Working on Screen(1st Edition)
Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema
by Malek Khouri, Darrell Varga
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
ISBN-13: 978-0-8020-9388-2, ISBN: 0-8020-9388-4

"As themes in film studies literature, work and the working class have long occupied a peripheral place in the evaluation of Canadian cinema, often set aside in the critical literature for the sake of a unifying narrative that assumes a division between Québécois and English Canada's film production, a social-realist documentary aesthetic, and what might be called a 'younger brother' relationship with the United States.In Working on Scre ..."






Shooting from the East
Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic
by Darrell Varga
374 Pages, Published 2015 by Mcgill-Queen's Press - Mqup
ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-9805-8, ISBN: 0-7735-9805-7

"It is an omission mirrored in the opaque references to Perry's private life in the nfb documentary Margaret Perry: Filmmaker (Dir: Les Krizsan, 1987), a film overview of her work, beginning at the nfb as protegé to John Grierson during the Second World War. After the war, she became the main staff filmmaker for the Nova Scotia Film Bureau, producing over fifty films until her retirement in 1970. In the film, there are coy reference ..."






John Walker's Passage
by Darrell Varga
144 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-6439-5, ISBN: 1-4426-6439-8

"Generation Poised for Action,' Cinema Canada, July 1982: 11–13. 3Jack Chambers,'Perceptual Realism,'in KathrynElder,ed., The Filmsof Jack Chambers (Toronto,Bloomington: Cinemateque Ontario, Indiana University Press, 2002),34. 4Strandwascompleted overaperiod ofseven yearsand released after the filmChambers: Tracks and Gestures, but it isthe first film Walkerbeganas director. 5 AlanTrachtenberg, 'Introduction,' inMarkStange,ed., Paul ..."






Rain, Drizzle, Fog
Film and Television in Atlantic Canada
by Darrell Varga
Published 2008
ISBN-13: 978-1-55238-266-0, ISBN: 1-55238-266-4






Screening the City
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Contributor-Jude Davies, Contributor-Matthew Gandy, Contributor-Martin Gaughan, Contributor-Paul Gormley, Contributor-Peter Jelavich, Contributor-Jessie Labov, Contributor-Tyrus Miller, Contributor-John Orr, Paula J. Massood, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Carsten Strathausen, Darrell Varga
Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-690-2, ISBN: 1-85984-690-4

"The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocative collection of essays, films as diverse as The Man with the Movie Camera, Annie Hall, Street of Crocodiles, Boyz N the Hood, Three Colors Red, and Crash are examined in terms of the relationship between cinema and the changing urban experience in Eur ..."






Screening the City(1st Edition)
by Mark Shiel, Tony Fitzmaurice, Matthew Gandy, Martin Gaughan, Paul Gormley, Peter Jelavich, Jessie Labov, Tyrus Miller, Darrell Varga, Carsten Strathausen, Professor Jude Davies, Jude Davies, John Orr, Professor Paula J. Massood, Professor John Orr, Dr Allan Siegel Md Phd, Professor David Sorfa, Allan Siegel, David Sorfa, Professor Mark Shiel, Shiel Fitzmaurice
Paperback, 322 Pages, Published 2003 by Verso
ISBN-13: 978-1-85984-476-2, ISBN: 1-85984-476-6

"Throughout the book, the cinema's artistic encounter with the city always intersects with a social and political engagement in which urgent issues of class, race, sexuality, the environment, liberty, capital, and totalitarianism are everywhere at stake.The city has long been an important location for filmmakers. Visually compelling and always modern, it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world. In this provocati ..."

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