Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANGF17-212E
- Title
- Canadian Cinema
- Usual semester
- Spring
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- By using some key concepts of film theory and some representative movies of the past decades, the course intends to make students acquaint themselves with the historic and artistic features, questions and trends of Canadian cinema and to urge them to approach the problems inherent in the movies in a critical manner.
- Course content
- The course explores some representative Canadian movies of the past few decades, investigating the ways in which movies are constructed, the technical solutions employed, the social features underlying the films, the representation of identity, indigenous people and immigrants, and the connections between literature and film.
- Assessment method
- Requirements: reading set texts, participation in discussions, in-class presentation and research paper Assessment: based on research paper, in-class presentation, quizzes and participation in discussions
- Bibliography
- Gittings, Christopher E. Canadian National Cinema: Ideology, Difference and Representation. London and New York: Routledge, 2002. Graham, Gerald G. Canadian Film Technology, 1896-1986. London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1989. Melnyk, George. One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Morris, Peter. Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895-1939. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. Rist, Peter, ed. Guide to The Cinema(s) of Canada, Westport: Greenwood Press, 2001. Walz, Eugene P., ed. Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002. Wise, Wyndham, ed. Essential Guide to Canadian Film. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001.