Contemporary Candian Film and Literature:
Survival in Postmodern Cities
Real-Time Discussion Area
Kate Liu, Fall, 1999
Final Exam
 
Course Description
Syllabus
 Relevant LInks
Film and Literature
Canadian Lit. & Film Site
Film Languages
Syllabus
Date
Topics and Texts
10/1
  • Introduction: 
--  Issues of Nation, Race and Gender in Contemporary Canadian City film and literature (lecture outline; General Intro. articles)
--  some short films as examples
10/8
  • Early 20th-century Immigrants in Montreal
--La Sarrasine Paul Tana 1992 (Italian) ; 
--"The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die"  (Jewish) Mordecai Richler 1969  (Animation: "The Street")
10/15
  • Early 20th-century Immigrants in Toronto
--from In the Skin of a Lion  ("Little Seeds" & "The Bridge")  (Macedonian) Michael Ondaatje
10/22
  • Toronto: Caribbean Immigrants
-- Lulu by Srinivas Krishna
-- "I'm Running for my Life"  Austin Clarke
10/29
  • Toronto: Caribbean Immigrants
-- from Sans Souci and Other Stories ("No Rinsed-Blue Sky, No Red-Flower Fense";  "At the Lisbon Plate")  Dionne Brand
11/5
  • Toronto: Gaze & Survival on the Margins of the City 
-- "Blazing Figures" 
-- Exotica  1994  Atom Egoyan
11/12
  • Holiday
11/18
11/25
12/3
12/10
  • Montreal: Gender and the Youth of the two decades  (2)

    • -- Night Zoo  1987  Jean-Claude Lauzon 
    -- "Crates of Stars" and "Rescue" from Concrete Forest
12/16
 -- "Pigeon in Lemon Sauce" 
12/24
  • Montreal: Nation and Gender (or the loss of father) (2)
-- Le Confessionnal  1995  Robert Lepage 
12/31
  • Film and Play (2)
The Seven Streams of River Ota
1/7
The Seven Streams of River Ota

1/14
  • Montreal on the road: Another Comprehensive View

    • Cosmos
    "Missing" by Julie Doucet from Concrete Forest
  • Conclusion
1/20
Final Exam