Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada.

摘要

Scholarly analyses of film and television in Canada have tended to privilege a national framework, often addressing regional particularities in a somewhat superficial way to shore up claims to Canada's cultural sovereignty. As such, Varga's edited collection, Rain/Drizzle/Fog, the first academic study of film and television in Atlantic Canada, is an important contribution to a growing literature that labours "to understand identity not as a national imaginary, but as something produced in the lived experience of place" (p. xii). The collection forms the second volume in the Cinemas Off Centre series out of the University of Calgary Press, edited and inaugurated by Malek Khouri (2007) with his book Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-46.