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Author Low, Brian J.

Title NFB Kids : Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989.

Publication Info. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (295 pages)
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Summary 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 profound change in its.
Contents 1 Children in a Cinematic Society; 2 Early NFB Society: The Eyes of Democracy; 3 Lessons in Living: ''Deconstruction'' of a Rural Community in Early NFB Society; 4 Fields of Vision: Panoramas of Childhood in the Cinematic Society, 1947-67; 5 ''The New Generation'': Mental Hygiene and the Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1946-67; 6 A Progressive State of Disequilibrium: Social Relations in the Cinematic Society, 1968-89; 7 Conclusion: The Century of the Cinematic Child; 8 Epilogue.
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Subject National Film Board of Canada -- History.
National Film Board of Canada.
History.
Children in motion pictures -- History.
Children in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Canada.
Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
Canada.
Motion pictures -- Canada -- History.
Motion pictures.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Low, Brian J. NFB Kids : Portrayals of Children by the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-1989. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 9780889203860
ISBN 9780889207202 (electronic book)
0889207208 (electronic book)