Challenge for Change : Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword Putting Ideas into the World: A Conversation with Naomi Klein about Starting Conversations with Film
1 Introduction: Forty Years Later … a Space for Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle
PART 1 HISTORICAL SPACES: IN THE HEAT OF THE ACTION
	2 Grierson and Challenge for Change (1984)
	3 In the Hands of Citizens: A Video Report (1969)
	4 Saint-Jérôme: The Experience of a Filmmaker as Social Animator (1968)
	5 A Voice for Canadian Indians: An Indian Film Crew (1968)
	6 Fiction Film as Social Animator (1971–72)
	7 Working with Film: Experiences with a Group of Films about Working Mothers (1975)
	8 Memo to Michelle about Decentralizing the Means of Production (1972)
	9 Can We Evaluate Challenge for Change? (1972)
PART 2 COMMUNITY SPACES: FILMING AT THE MARGINS
	10 Media for the People: The Canadian Experiments with Film and Video in Community Development (1992)
	11 Cities for Change: The Housing Challenge
	12 The En tant que femmes Series, the Film Souris, tu m’inquiètes, and the Imaging of Women’s Consciousness in 1970s Quebec
	13 Le mouton noir: Vidéographe and the Legacy of Société nouvelle
	14 The Things I Cannot Change: A Revisionary Reading
PART 3 SCREEN SPACES: SPOTLIGHT ON THE FILMS AND FILMMAKERS
	15 You Are on Indian Land: Interview with George Stoney (1980)
	16 Cree Hunters of Mistassini: Challenge for Change and Aboriginal Rights
	17 “Nation Time” at Kwacha House: The Transitional Modalities of Encounter at Kwacha House – Halifax
	18 The Films of Maurice Bulbulian: Science and Conscience
	19 The Curious Case of Wilf: Popular Music in Canadian Documentary
	20 Portapak as Performance: VTR St-Jacques and VTR Rosedale
	21 Bonnie Klein, Saul Alinsky, and the American Experience
	22 Michel Régnier’s “Films-Outil”
	23 Léonard Forest and Acadia
	24 Filmmaker as History: The Interventionist Films of Martin Duckworth
	25 Les filles du Roy
	26 In Praise of Anomaly: Le bonhomme and Rose’s House
	27 Getting Close and Staying Far: Pierre Lasry and the Solo Moms
	28 Paper Wheat: Alternative Theatre Meets Alternative Filmmaking
	29 “Would I Ever Like to Work”: The “Working Mothers” Films and the Construction of Community
	30 O, Canada! George Stoney’s Challenge (1999)
PART 4 DISCURSIVE SPACES: THEORIZING CHALLENGE FOR CHANGE/SOCIÉTÉ NOUVELLE
	31 Société nouvelle: The Challenge to Change in the Alternative Public Sphere (1996)
	32 Meeting at the Poverty Line: Government Policy, Social Work, and Media Activism in the Challenge for Change Program
	33 Amateur Video and the Challenge for Change (1995)
	34 Video: The Politics of Culture and Community (1996)
	35 Winds and Things: Towards a Reassessment of the Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle Legacy
	36 “If a Revolution Is Screened and No One Is There to See It, Does It Make a Sound?” The Politics of Distribution and Counterpublics
PART 5 CONCLUSION: CONTEMPORARY REINCARNATIONS
	37 Filmmaker-in-Residence: The Digital Grandchild of Challenge for Change
	38 Thirty Years and Twelve Thousand Miles Away ...
Challenge for Change/Société nouvelle: The Complete Filmography
Comprehensive Bibliography
Contributors
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