THE CINEMA OF CANADA Edited by Jerry White London: Wallflower Press, 24 Frames Series, 2006, 268 pp.
FILM IN CANADA Jim Leach Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006, 196 pp.
Two new books survey the terrain of Canadian cinema, each striving to present a cohesive, contextually-grounded snapshot of a national cinema with an insecure identity. While Jerry White's anthology, The Cinema of Canada, comprises twenty-four essays focussed on films drawn from the categories of English-Canadian, Québécois and Aboriginal cinema, Jim Leach's monograph, Film in Canada, takes a topic-centred approach to the examination of key assumptions. When read together, the books seem to speak to each other, ...