Shooting from the East(1st Edition) Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic by DarrellVarga 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 DarrellVarga 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 DarrellVarga 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 ..."
"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 DarrellVarga 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, DarrellVarga 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 ..."
"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, DarrellVarga 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 DarrellVarga 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 DarrellVarga 144 Pages, Published 2012 by University Of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-6439-5, ISBN: 1-4426-6439-8
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Chambers,'Perceptual Realism,'in KathrynElder,ed., The Filmsof Jack Chambers
(Toronto,Bloomington: Cinemateque Ontario, Indiana University Press, 2002),34.
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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 DarrellVarga Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-1-55238-266-0, ISBN: 1-55238-266-4
"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 ..."
"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 ..."