RT Book, Whole DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 082772022 LA English T1 Filming politics : communism and the portrayal of the working class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-46 A1 Khouri, Malek,, PB University of Calgary Press PP Calgary, Alberta, Canada YR 2007 SN 9781552381991 1552381994 AB Malek Khouri examines carefully a period at the National Film Board when its creative output and guiding principles reflected less the cultural mainstream, identifying instead more with the surging wave of International Communism. Beginning with an analysis of the political, cultural, and social milieu under which the institution was founded, Khouri highlights how these dynamics impacted the creation of the NFB. He details the ideological background of the NFBs̕ founders and filmmakers, positing that these factors ultimately shaped the emergence of a counter-hegemonic discourse as evidenced through the portrayal of the working class.