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Joyce Wieland's 'The Far Shore'

Joyce Wieland's 'The Far Shore'

Sloan, Johanne

Paperback

Series: Canadian Cinema, Book 4

Canadian ArtFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1442610603
ISBN13: 9781442610606
Publisher: Univ Of Toronto Pr
Published: Jun 1 2010
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

The Far Shore (1976), made under the direction of celebrated visual artist and experimental filmmaker Joyce Wieland, is one of Canada's most innovative contributions to cinema. The film borrows elements from the life of Canadian painter Tom Thomson, who is represented by the character of Tom McLeod. The main character, however, is not Tom, but the fictional creation of Eulalie de Chicoutimi, the married Québécoise woman who loves him. Using Eulalie's perspective, Wieland was able to re-frame Thomson's life and story as a romantic melodrama while infusing it with subversive commentary on gender, nature and nationalism, and ultimately, on the value of art.

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