Hollywood's Canada: The Americanization of Our National Image

McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, Canada, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Photographic. introduction by author, acknowledgements, list of illustrations, photo credits, appendix, notes and index. Cartoon illustrated endpapers – showing various Hollywood film representations of Canada. The text is illustrated with black-and-white film stills. White coloured boards with red coloured back strip and white coloured titles. Plain text dustwrapper with red, gilt and gray coloured titles to the front panel and black and white coloured titles to the back strip. "Between 1907 in 1975, Hollywood movie makers made 575 movies specifically set (although not usually filmed) in Canada. That statistic. All those Canadians who have been told that foreign audiences wont sit still for a film about their country. As Pierre Berton points out in this explosive, tragic, and often funny book, the opposite is true. Movies about Canada have been making money on international markets for half a century. But the Canadian image that has been shown to the world is very different from the real Canada; and the Canadian image – now firmly fixed in the minds of three generations of moviegoers – is a caricature of the real thing. If Canadians have no sense of their own identity, it is partly because American moviemakers have distorted and blurred that identity." -- from the front fold over panel blurb. Softening of the back strip edges and rubbing of the book corners and lower book edges. Age toning of the text block edges. Creasing to the dustwrapper edges with rubbing, handling marks and fading, particularly to the back strip, to the dustwrapper. Handling marks and foxing to the verso. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [110], 11 - 303, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Film, Radio & Television; Canada; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0771012233. ISBN/EAN: 9780771012235. Inventory No: 0120337. . 9780771012235