Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema -- this book explores exactly that.
Using a half-century of films from the archival collection of the National Film Board, NFB Kids: Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989 overcomes a long-standing impasse about what films may be credibly said to document. Here they document not "reality," but social images preserved over time -- the "NFB Society" -- an evolving, cinematic representation of Canadian families, schools and communities.
During the postwar era, this society-in-cinema underwent a...
Imagine a society that exists solely in cinema -- this book explores exactly that.
Using a half-century of films from the archival collec...
