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Canadian Film and Video. A bibliography and guide to the literature LOREN R. LI.ExNER, 1997
Toronto, University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2 vols, $(Canada) 275.00, $200.00
Based in form and structure on Art and Architecture in Canada, Loren Lerner's Canadian Film and Video is an impressive guide to literature relating to film and video in Canada. This two-volume bibliographic reference provides a valuable starting point for any researcher tackling topics in Canadian cinema history. The guide chronicles written material, both French and English, from the early 1900s to 1989, Canada's `Year of the Film'.
Canadian Film and Video provides access to a wide variety of resources including both popular and academic publications. This reflects, as Pierre Veronneau notes, in his forward, current trends in film research in which diverse sources, many of which have been previously overlooked, are incorporated within the reconstruction of these histories. The literature listed within these volumes includes books, film magazines such as Cinema Canada, Cinema Quebec and Take...