"Considered English Canada's first queer film, Winter Kept Us Warm explores a romance between two young men at the University of Toronto in the early 1960s, when being gay was still a crime. A true student film, it was written and directed by David Sector, then a twenty-two-year-old Englis...

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1. Verfasser:	Dupuis, Chris (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago McGill-Queen's University Press [2024]
Schriftenreihe:	Queer film classics
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1965 Homosexualität > Motiv Spielfilm Kanada Winter kept us warm (Motion picture) Secter, David / Criticism and interpretation Homosexuality in motion pictures Criticism, interpretation, etc
Zusammenfassung:	"Considered English Canada's first queer film, Winter Kept Us Warm explores a romance between two young men at the University of Toronto in the early 1960s, when being gay was still a crime. A true student film, it was written and directed by David Sector, then a twenty-two-year-old English major, shot with amateur actors and a volunteer crew, and completed on a budget of only $8,000. Against the odds, the film was a great success when first released. Lauded by critics, it was selected to open the Commonwealth Film Festival, played art house cinemas across the US and Europe, and became the first Anglo-Canadian film to screen at Cannes. Influential film journals including Sight and Sound and Cahiers du cinéma wrote about it, as did mainstream publications like Variety and the New York Times. David Cronenberg has cited it as influential to his own work. Despite this acclaim, the film has largely vanished from cultural consciousness, and few queer people today have even heard of it, let alone seen it. Chris Dupuis looks at the disconnect between the film's historical importance and subsequent disappearance from the queer film cannon, showing how Winter Kept Us Warm can serve as a discussion point for intergenerational queer dialogue."
Beschreibung:	xx, 124 Seiten Illustrationen 21 cm
ISBN:	9780228020325 9780228020332