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DocLit: Screening Nature and Nation Charts a History of NFB Eco Docs

by Pat Mullen
July 15, 2022
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Screening Nature and Nation: The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974 by Michael D. Clemens offers a thorough study of key NFB films and their relationship to environmentalism in Canada.

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DocLit: ‘Transmedia Marketing: from film and TV to games and new media’

by Christina Clarke
December 14, 2016January 10, 2022
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Transmedia Marketing: From Film and TV to Games and Digital Media by Anne Zeiser is a practical guide for film and TV promotion.

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Doc Lit: Representation and Censorship in ‘Not a Love Story’

by Karen Herland
August 4, 2016January 9, 2022
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In revisiting Bonnie Sherr Klein’s Not a Love Story for the Canadian Cinema Series, Rebecca Sullivan wades back into the 1980s “porn wars."

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DocLit: How to build an effective social impact campaign

by Liz Marshall
June 6, 2016January 10, 2022
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Tracey Friesen's Story Money Impact: Funding Media for Social Change is a welcome companion for filmmakers exploring impact culture.

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DocLit: ‘Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic’

by Julia Higgins
March 17, 2016January 10, 2022
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On Jean Bruce and Gerda Cammaer’s monograph Forbidden Love: A Queer Film Classic about Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman's 1992 doc.

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DocLit: John Walker’s Passage

by Kristi Kouchakji
December 1, 2015February 2, 2022
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Darrell Varga’s book John Walker’s Passage is essentially an auteurist study of the filmmaker himself, bound up with an in-depth analysis of his 2008 hybrid film.

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DocLit: Screening Truth to Power

by David Davidson
July 7, 2015February 2, 2022
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Cinema Politica’s book Screening Truth to Power catches Canada’s current cultural ferment.

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DocLit: “Documentary”

by Ezra Winton
July 7, 2015February 2, 2022
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Although there is nothing new in the content, Documentary succeeds as an important curatorial intervention.

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Documemories

by Matthew Hays
April 1, 2011April 15, 2022
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An anthology by Tom Waugh, Ezra Winton, and Michael Brendan Baker celebrates the NFB’s Challenge for Change documentaries.

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Reel Books: The Art of the Documentary

by Elizabeth Johnston
April 1, 2006May 15, 2022
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This is yet another coffee table book foray into the minds of some key documentary-makers like D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles and Ken Burns, and several more not represented by separate chapters, such

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