Hamilton Babylon
A History of the McMaster Film Board
Seiten
2016
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-4778-7 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4426-4778-7 (ISBN)
Founded in 1966 at McMaster University by avant-garde filmmaker John Hofsess and future frat-comedy innovator Ivan Reitman, the McMaster Film Board was a milestone in the development of Canada’s commercial and experimental film communities. McMaster’s student film society quickly became the site of art filmmaking and an incubator for some of the country’s most famous commercial talent – as the well as the birthplace of the first Canadian film to lead to obscenity charges, Hofsess’s Columbus of Sex.
In Hamilton Babylon, Stephen Broomer traces the history of the MFB from its birth as an organization for producing and exhibiting avant-garde films, through its transformation into a commercial-industrial enterprise, and into its final decline as a show business management style suppressed many of its voices. The first book to highlight the work of Hofsess, an innovative filmmaker whose critical role in the MFB has been almost entirely eclipsed by Reitman’s legend, Hamilton Babylon is a fascinating study of the tension between art and business in the growth of the Canadian film industry.
In Hamilton Babylon, Stephen Broomer traces the history of the MFB from its birth as an organization for producing and exhibiting avant-garde films, through its transformation into a commercial-industrial enterprise, and into its final decline as a show business management style suppressed many of its voices. The first book to highlight the work of Hofsess, an innovative filmmaker whose critical role in the MFB has been almost entirely eclipsed by Reitman’s legend, Hamilton Babylon is a fascinating study of the tension between art and business in the growth of the Canadian film industry.
Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker and film historian whose films have been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlin Directors Lounge, and Lincoln Center.
Chapter One: A Dangerous Precedent
Chapter Two: Assembling Pleasure
Chapter Three: A New President
Chapter Four: Participatory Democracy
Chapter Five: Seize the Projectors
Chapter Six: Sync Sound Arrives, 1970
Chapter Seven: The Film Board Presidents on Trial
Chapter Eight: The Appeal
Chapter Nine: Show Business
Appendix: McMaster Film Board Filmography
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 570 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
| Wirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4426-4778-7 / 1442647787 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4426-4778-7 / 9781442647787 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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