Toronto New Wave Cinema and the Anarchist-Apocalypse

Name: Toronto New Wave Cinema and the Anarchist-Apocalypse
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David Christopher

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English

Manchester University Press
01 July 2025

Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers; Film & movie: styles & genres

The Toronto New Wave (TNW) comprises a group of avant-garde filmmakers working in Canada from the 1980s and into the new millennium whose innovative film works share significant affinities with anarchist themes and aesthetics.

Several of the TNW filmmakers openly identify as anarchists and/or acknowledge a debt to anarchism in their production of highly apocalyptic narratives as part of their cinematic political projects. However, recognition of anarchism's progressive apocalyptic theoretical relevance has yet to be substantially taken up by scholarship in cinema analysis. This analysis introduces an anarchist-inflected analytical methodology to understand the apocalyptic-revelatory political work these films attempt to accomplish in the perceptual space between the filmic texts and both their auteurs and potential viewers, and to re-locate the TNW within cinema history as an ongoing phenomenon with new significance in an apocalyptic era of digital distribution.

By: David Christopher
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 551g
ISBN: 9781526188366
ISBN 10: 1526188368
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Christopher is Lecturer of Popular Screen Cultures at the University of Leicester.