Embattled Shadows

by Peter Morris

Book Overview

Embattled Shadows is the first and only history of Canadian film making in the years before the establishment of the National Film Board of Canada in 1939. It begins with an entertaining account of the travelling showmen who brought the movies to large and small communities across the country, and discusses the films produced in Canada before World War I. In the atmosphere of heightened nationalism during and after the war there was a determined attempt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773503234
• ISBN13: 9780773503236
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.