GRAVESTOCK | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Don Owen, perhaps best known as the director of the seminal 1964 featureNobody Waved Goodbye, is one of the central figures in the development ofEnglish-Canadian cinema. Owen spent much of his career at the National Film Board ofCanada, oscillating between short documentary films (including Runner, Cowboy andIndian, and You Don't Back Down) and feature-length works such as The Ernie Game, which sparked a scandal in Parliament; the innovative, Godard-influenced featuretteNotes for a Film about Donna and Gail; and Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. LeonardCohen, a portrait of the poet co-directed with Donald Brittain. Don Owen: Notes on aFilmmaker and His Culture is the first book-length treatment of themes and motifs inOwen's work, Steve Gravestock situates Owen within a cultural context while focusingon the development of the English-Canadian film industry in the 1960s and beyond.The book includes interviews with Owen and many of his principalcollaborators.