Winter kept us warm /
"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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Queer film classics (McGill-Queen's University Press)
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| Summary: | "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 ciňma 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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 124 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Issued also in electronic formats. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780228020325 0228020328 9780228020332 0228020336 |