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Hinterland RemixedMedia, Memory, and the Canadian 1970s |
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An examination of the legacy and cultural afterlife of the Canadian 1970s in film, television, and the visual arts.
Like the flute melody from Hinterland Who's Who, the 1970s haunt Canadian cultural memory. Though the decade often feels lost to history, Hinterland Remixed focuses on boldly innovative works as well as popular film, television, and music to show that Canada never fully left the 1970s behind.
Andrew Burke reveals how contemporary artists and filmmakers have revisited the era's cinematic and televisual residues to uncover what has been lost over the years. Investigating how the traces of an analogue past circulate in a digital age, Burke digs through the remnants of 1970s Canadiana and examines key audiovisual works from this overlooked decade, uncovering the period's aspirations, desires, fears, and anxieties. He then looks to contemporary projects that remix, remediate, and reanimate the period. Exploring an idiosyncratic selection of works - from Michael Snow's experimental landscape film La Région Centrale, to SCTV's satirical skewering of network television, to L'Atelier national du Manitoba's video lament for the Winnipeg Jets - this book asks key questions about nation, nostalgia, media, and memory.
A timely intervention, Hinterland Remixed demands we recognize the ways in which the unrealized cultural ambitions and unresolved anxieties of a previous decade continue to resonate in our current lives.
Andrew Burke reveals how contemporary artists and filmmakers have revisited the era's cinematic and televisual residues to uncover what has been lost over the years. Investigating how the traces of an analogue past circulate in a digital age, Burke digs through the remnants of 1970s Canadiana and examines key audiovisual works from this overlooked decade, uncovering the period's aspirations, desires, fears, and anxieties. He then looks to contemporary projects that remix, remediate, and reanimate the period. Exploring an idiosyncratic selection of works - from Michael Snow's experimental landscape film La Région Centrale, to SCTV's satirical skewering of network television, to L'Atelier national du Manitoba's video lament for the Winnipeg Jets - this book asks key questions about nation, nostalgia, media, and memory.
A timely intervention, Hinterland Remixed demands we recognize the ways in which the unrealized cultural ambitions and unresolved anxieties of a previous decade continue to resonate in our current lives.
Details
264 Pages, 6 x 9
15 b&w images
ISBN 9780773558595
November 2019
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"Hinterland Remixed is as engaging as it is innovative and intelligent. I cannot overstate the quality, timeliness, and elegance of this work." Jennifer VanderBurgh, Saint Mary's University
"We need this book. Not only does Hinterland Remixed provide extremely compelling readings of 1970s objects and contemporary works that revisit this decade's artifacts; it accomplishes the interpretive goal of bringing the past inside the present." Peter Urquhart, Wilfrid Laurier University
"Through an eclectic mix of case studies, {Burke} illustrates his hypothesis: Canadians have never really left the 1970s behind, and its vestiges still haunt our cultural landscape. While some of the book’s legibility hinges on familiarity with the works he refers to, its appeal extends beyond an academic audience to anyone with a passion for cultural memory, analogue media or the many gems of Canadian public broadcasting." Galleries West
"Hinterland Remixed is an elegant paean to a decade some prefer to forget. As Burke writes in his coda, "The 1970s are still with us" ... it remains possible to harness the decade's energies to positive ends.” Border Crossings
"Written with force and clarity, Hinterland Remixed now stands as a key text for students and scholars invested in questions of media, memory, and culture in Canada. It is accessible in a way that will serve non-experts yet robust in its theoretical underpinning so that it may inspire further research. It stands alongside recent work including Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada (2014), edited by Zoë Druick and Gerda Cammaer, and Darrel Varga's Shooting from the East: Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic (2015) in its thoughtful examination of marginalized and overlooked works within Canadian film and media studies history. It is quite simply a masterful work of cultural history that synthesizes the canon of Western popular culture and media studies in service of a deeper probe of the role media objects play in our understanding of - and attachment to - a Canadian historical past and present." Canadian Journal of Film Studies
"We need this book. Not only does Hinterland Remixed provide extremely compelling readings of 1970s objects and contemporary works that revisit this decade's artifacts; it accomplishes the interpretive goal of bringing the past inside the present." Peter Urquhart, Wilfrid Laurier University
"Through an eclectic mix of case studies, {Burke} illustrates his hypothesis: Canadians have never really left the 1970s behind, and its vestiges still haunt our cultural landscape. While some of the book’s legibility hinges on familiarity with the works he refers to, its appeal extends beyond an academic audience to anyone with a passion for cultural memory, analogue media or the many gems of Canadian public broadcasting." Galleries West
"Hinterland Remixed is an elegant paean to a decade some prefer to forget. As Burke writes in his coda, "The 1970s are still with us" ... it remains possible to harness the decade's energies to positive ends.” Border Crossings
"Written with force and clarity, Hinterland Remixed now stands as a key text for students and scholars invested in questions of media, memory, and culture in Canada. It is accessible in a way that will serve non-experts yet robust in its theoretical underpinning so that it may inspire further research. It stands alongside recent work including Cinephemera: Archives, Ephemeral Cinema, and New Screen Histories in Canada (2014), edited by Zoë Druick and Gerda Cammaer, and Darrel Varga's Shooting from the East: Filmmaking on the Canadian Atlantic (2015) in its thoughtful examination of marginalized and overlooked works within Canadian film and media studies history. It is quite simply a masterful work of cultural history that synthesizes the canon of Western popular culture and media studies in service of a deeper probe of the role media objects play in our understanding of - and attachment to - a Canadian historical past and present." Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Andrew Burke is associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg.
Figures / vii
Acknowledgments / ix
Introduction: The Past Inside the Present / 3
1 Nation, Nature, and Nostalgia: Hinterland Who’s Who / 21
2 “A record of the last wilderness on earth”: La Région Centrale, Landscape, and the Long ’70s / 53
3 “SCTV now begins its programming day”: Television, Satire, and the Archive / 85
4 Memory, Magnetic Tape, and Death by Popcorn / 115
5 Remediating the Long ’70s / 146
Coda: Sorting through the Wreckage of the Twentieth Century / 176
Notes / 187
Bibliography / 217
Index / 233
Acknowledgments / ix
Introduction: The Past Inside the Present / 3
1 Nation, Nature, and Nostalgia: Hinterland Who’s Who / 21
2 “A record of the last wilderness on earth”: La Région Centrale, Landscape, and the Long ’70s / 53
3 “SCTV now begins its programming day”: Television, Satire, and the Archive / 85
4 Memory, Magnetic Tape, and Death by Popcorn / 115
5 Remediating the Long ’70s / 146
Coda: Sorting through the Wreckage of the Twentieth Century / 176
Notes / 187
Bibliography / 217
Index / 233
