Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada

by Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker, Ezra Winton

Book Overview

Pioneering participatory, social change-oriented media, the program had a national and international impact on documentary film-making, yet this is the first comprehensive history and analysis of its work. The volume's contributors study dozens of films produced by the program, their themes, aesthetics, and politics, and evaluate their legacy and the program's place in Canadian, Québécois, and world cinema. An informative and nuanced look at a cinematic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773536639
• ISBN13: 9780773536630
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"