Rain/Drizzle/Fog

Film and Television in Atlantic Canada

edited by Darrell Varga, contributions by Colin Howell; Peter L. Twohig; Pierre Veronneau; Gregory Canning; Noreen Golfman; Malek Khouri; Jerry White; Jan Vanderburg; John McCullough; Tracy Y. Zhang; Bruce Barber; Andrew Burke & Sylvia D. Hamilton

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This is an exciting new collection sure to create ripples throughout Canadian film studies … an important new addition to the literature on Canadian screen culture. - Zoë Druick, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University

Rain/Drizzle/Fog : Film and Television in Atlantic Canada is the first scholarly study of film and television in Atlantic Canada. With contributors from across the country, the book provides a broad historical overview of film and television in the region, as well as essays on specific topics in contemporary popular television (Trailer Park Boys), early television (Don Messer's Jubilee), and the work of filmmakers such as Bill MacGillivray, Andrea Dorfman, Thom Fitzgerald, and others.

This collection is informed by a critical perspective on prevailing stereotypes of culture in the Atlantic region, as well as by history and political-economy debates on the relationship between Atlantic and central Canada. It is also in large part a response to the continued marginalization of regional film and television within the field of Canadian film studies, which has traditionally been dominated by a critical and artistic canon from central Canada and Quebec. Rain/Drizzle/Fog challenges the prevailing tendency to homogenize the complexity of Canadian cultural production and instead celebrates the regional distinctions that make Atlantic film and television unique.

With Contributions By: Bruce Barber Andrew Burke Gregory Canning Noreen Golfman Sylvia D. Hamilton Colin Howell MalekKhouri John Mccullough Peter L. Twohig Jen Vanderburg DarrellVarga Pierre Veronneau Jerry White Tracy Y. Zhang

About the Authors

Darrell Varga is Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Film and Media Studies at NSCAD University (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), where he teaches courses in film history, documentary film, and Canadian cinema. He has published widely on Canadian cinema and is the co-editor of Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema.

Colin D. Howell is Professor of History, Saint Mary's University.

Jerry White teaches and writes about cinema, literature, and culture in Quebec, Canada, and Europe. He is the author of numerous books on film, including WLU Press-published The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958-1988, Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville, and Stan Brakhage in Rolling Stock, 1980-1990.

Andrew Burke is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg.

Sylvia D. Hamilton is a writer, filmmaker and artist, whose poetry collection And I Alone Escaped to Tell You (Gaspereau Press 2014), was a finalist for the Nova Scotia Masterworks Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her honours include the Portia White Prize, the 2019 Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media and the 2021 Luminary Award given by the Documentary Organization of Canada’s. She is an Inglis Professor Emeritus at the University of King’s College in Halifax.

Editorial Review

Fascinating reading for anyone intrigued by the international history of television

?James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review

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Rain/Drizzle/Fog

Film and Television in Atlantic Canada

edited by Darrell Varga, contributions by Colin Howell; Peter L. Twohig; Pierre Veronneau; Gregory Canning; Noreen Golfman; Malek Khouri; Jerry White; Jan Vanderburg; John McCullough; Tracy Y. Zhang; Bruce Barber; Andrew Burke & Sylvia D. Hamilton

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