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Article: Genie goes to --: celebrating 50 years of Canadian film awards.
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- December 1, 2000
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And the Genie Goes To ...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards Maria Topalovich, Stoddart Publishing, Toronto. 249 pages. $50.00
This worthy account of the the Canadian Film Awards/Genies is essentially an update of a book that was published in 1984 by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Originally titled A Pictorial History of the Canadian Film Awards, it has been long out of print and it is to the Academy's and its director's, Maria Topalovich, credit that finally a second edition is now available.
So little is written about Canadian film history that anything published is welcome, and as a reference book, And the Genie Goes to ...