PROJECTING CANADA: GOVERNMENT POLICY AND DOCUMENTARY FILM AT THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD ZoëDruick Montréal: McGill-Queens University Press, Arts Insights Series, 2007, 244 pp.
FILMING POLITICS: COMMUNISM AND THE PORTRAYAL OF THE WORKING CLASS AT THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA, 1939-46 Malek Khouri Calgary: University of Calgary Press, Cinema Off Centre Series, 2007, 278 pp.
The greatest challenge for scholars examining Canada's National Film Board is to rise above and re-shape the oft-repeated anecdotal histories of the NFB and the prominence given to the iconic John Grierson. Projecting Canada and Filming Politics represent two excellent responses to the established …