The Film Issue (#99, May 2017)
Contents:
WHAT’S OLD
Notable CanLit reissues and offerings from the country’s antiquarian booksellers
- God’s Sparrows by Philip Child; The Pyx by John Buell; The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada, Louis Dudek & Michael Gnarowski, eds.; Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon; The Spice-Box of Earth by Leonard Cohen.
THE DUSTY BOOKCASE
A casual exploration of Canada’s suppressed, ignored, and forgotten literature
POETRY
FEATURES
- The Man Who Wasn’t There
The Claude Jutra legacy, a year after the scandal
by Matthew Hays - The Bad Little Canadian Girl
Why our homegrown pornographic narrative is a lie
by Tamara Faith Berger - Civilly Disobedient
A bygone Toronto in Sidney J. Furie’s resurrected feature
by Nathalie Atkinson - Bushing it in the Rough
Canadian identity in Russ Meyer’s 1968 soft-core opus
by Anthony Easton - Collaboration As Aesthetic Resistance
On the animated films of Jess Mac
by Chase Joynt - Make It Dangerous
Canadian film’s punk sensibility
by Rob Benvie - Life Parries Death
The poetry of Elise Partridge
by James Pollock
REREADING
- No Girl an Island
A pre-teenagehood with Judy Blume and Scott O’Dell
by Alissa York
THE NORTH WING
Selections from the Lost Library of CanLit graphic novels
THE ANTIQUARIUM
A series of interviews with Canada’s used-book sellers
- Vol. 5: Aimee Peake
FICTION
USED & RARE
- Apples and Oranges: Books vs. movies
by David Mason
REVIEWS
- Rohan Maitzen on Lesley Krueger’s Mad Richard
- Bruce Whiteman on Certain Details: The Poetry of Nelson Ball and Roo Borson’s Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar
- Alex Good on Barbara Gowdy’s Little Sister
- Jeff Bursey on Rebecca Rosenblum’s So Much Love
- JC Sutcliffe on David Bouchet’s Sun of a Distant Land
EXHUMATIONS
- Stanley J. Slote’s Weeding Library Collections
by Stephen Fowler