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Motion pictures -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Canada -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Canada -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Motion pictures -- Canada -- Reviews.
Motion picture industry -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Screenwriters -- Canada -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Motion pictures -- Canada -- Awards.
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Motion pictures -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Canada -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
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Motion pictures -- Canada -- Reviews.
Motion picture industry -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
Screenwriters -- Canada -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Motion pictures -- Canada -- Awards.
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Take One's essential guide to Canadian film / edited by Wyndham Wise.
University of Toronto Press, c2001.
Call #:
791.430971 T136
Subjects
Motion pictures
--
Canada
--
History
--
20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses
--
Canada
--
Biography
--
Dictionaries
.
Motion picture producers and directors
--
Canada
--
Biography
--
Dictionaries
.
Motion pictures
--
Canada
--
Reviews.
Motion picture industry
--
Canada
--
History
--
20th century.
Screenwriters
--
Canada
--
Biography
--
Dictionaries
.
Motion pictures
--
Canada
--
Awards.
ISBN:
9780802083982 (pbk., 2014 reprint of 2001 ed.)
0802083986 (pbk., 2014 reprint of 2001 ed.)
0802035124 (hc., 2014 reprint of 2001 ed.)
Alternate title:
Essential guide to Canadian film
Canadian film : Take One's essential guide
Description:
xiv, 272 p. ; 26 cm.
Notes:
Reprint of 2001 edition.
Summary:
An A-to-Z dictionary of Canadian film and filmmakers, combining 700 reviews and biographical listings with a detailed chronology of major events in Canadian film and television history up to the year 2001. Compiled by Wyndham Wise, the editor and publisher of Take One,
Canada
's most respected film magazine, with a foreword by Canadian director Patricia Rozema. Each film title is listed with credits, a mini review, and significant awards. Biographical listings of directors, producers, actors, writers, animators, cinematographers, distributors, exhibitors, and independent filmmakers are accompanied by date and place of birth, date of death if applicable, a brief career overview, and a filmography. Wise celebrates Canadian achievement on both a national and an international scale, and juxtaposes the distinctly Canadian with
Canada
's exports to Hollywood: Maury Chaykin and Jim Carrey, John Candy and William Shatner, Mon Oncle Antoine and Porky's, Highway 61 and Meatballs, The Red Violin and The Art of War. From great early Hollywood stars like Walter Huston, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer, and Marie Dressler, to our current crop of star directors - including Patricia Rozema, Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg, Denys Arcand, Peter Mettler, Guy Maddin, and Robert Lepage. A reference guide to Canadian film culture at the start of the twenty-first century.
Other authors:
Wise, Wyndham, 1947-
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