Who’s on the Home Front? Canadian Masculinity in the NFB’s Second World War Series “Canada Carries On”

Authors

Michael Brendan Baker, Sheridan CollegeFollow

Files

Role

Michael Brendan Baker contributed the essay "Who’s on the Home Front? Canadian Masculinity in the NFB’s Second World War Series “Canada Carries On”" to the book Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice.

Document Type

Book Chapter

Description

A study of the National Film Board of Canada's World War II film series in terms of its demonstration of assumed cultural values regarding identity, agency, and "manliness" in the context of the NFB's wartime nation-building project.

ISBN

978-1-55458-327-0

Publication Date

10-2011

Terms of Use

Terms of Use for Works posted in SOURCE.

Keywords

film, cinema, National Film Board of Canada, Second World War, home front, masculinity, Canada Carries On, World War II

Disciplines

Film and Media Studies

Comments

Reprinted with permission of the publisher

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences

School

School of Humanities and Creativity

Copyright

© 2011 Wilfred Laurier University Press

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

SOURCE Citation

Baker, Michael Brendan, "Who’s on the Home Front? Canadian Masculinity in the NFB’s Second World War Series “Canada Carries On”" (2011). Faculty Books. 1.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/fhass_comm_book/1

Original Citation

Baker, M. (2011). Who's on the home front? Canadian masculinity in the NFB's WWII series "Canada Carries On". In C. Ramsay (Ed.), Making it like a man: Canadian masculinities in practice (pp. 39-51). Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier Press.