Fairy Tales for Men

My library of Canadian film books is not much larger now than it was when I first started studying the subject more decades ago than I care to remember. At least in English Canada, the list of major works about Canadian filmmakers has been fairly modest. Shorter articles on the subject are more abundant, of course, and anyone working in a post-secondary film studies program would be able to track down a respectable number of essays about individual films, film genres, filmmakers, and the material and regulatory frameworks in which films have been made in this country to underpin yet another article on the subject. The periodicals Canadian Journal of Film Studies and CineAction have always included contributions on Canadian film, and one can usually find a journal somewhere in the world that will happily accept a piece on the films made in this country.

Only a handful of feature-length filmmakers have generated sustained scholarly interest...