Brenda Longfellow

Brenda Longfellow
Born1954 (age 70–71)
Copper Cliff, Ontario, Canada
EducationMA at Carleton University and PhD at York University
Known forBiographies of historic women.
Notable work
  • Our Marilyn
  • Tina in Mexico
AwardsHouston Film Festival Bronze Remi Award (2008); Genie Award for Best Short Documentary (1999)

Brenda Longfellow (born 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker known for her biographies of female historic figures.[1] Since 2007, Longfellow's focus in her films has been on environmental issues.[2]

Biography

Brenda Longfellow was born in Copper Cliff, Ontario in 1954.[1] Longfellow earned MA at Carleton University and completed a PhD at York University.[3]

Career

Longfellow is a Canadian filmmaker and Professor of Cinema & Media Studies in the York University Film Department.[4] She is a film theorist and has published multiple articles related to Canadian cinema, documentary and feminist film theory.[5][4]

Style, technique, and reception

Longfellow's stated the following on the Canadian Women Film Directors Database website about her biographies about women, "...using biography as a way to think through as deeply as possible the contradictions that women live with. I've often chosen subjects where there has been dissonance between the public image of the women and her private experience".[1]

Significant works

Bibliography

  • MacKenzie, Scott; Waugh, Tom; Brenda Longfellow (2013) co-editors. The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson anthology. ISBN 978-0-7735-4143-6[12][6]
  • Pevere, Geoff; Handling, Piers; Hays, Matthew; Wise, Wyndham; Longfellow, Brenda; Gravestock, Steve; Edwards, Justin D. (2009). Toronto on Film. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0968913229.[13]
  • Armatage, Kay; Banning, Kass, Longfellow, Brenda; Marchessault, Janine (1992). Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema (pp. 3–14) University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802041203[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Brenda Longfellow (partial data)". www.femfilm.ca. Canadian Women Film Directors Database. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  2. ^ Wilson, Sheena, ed. (2017). PETROCULTURES: Oil, Politics, Culture. Carlson, Adam; Szeman, Imre. McGill - Queen's University Press. p. 509. ISBN 978-0-7735-5039-1.
  3. ^ "Brenda Longfellow". www.ampd.yorku.ca. York U. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Brenda Longfellow". www.thequirefoundation.org. The Squire Foundation. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Carpe Diem". www.nsi-canada.ca. national screen institute. 2010. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  6. ^ a b c d e "AMPD honours 'Offshore' documentary creator at inaugural research celebration, Feb. 14". www.yorku.ca. yFile York University's News. 2018. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Carpe Diem". www.cultureunplugged.com. culture unplugged. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  8. ^ "Tina In Mexico". www.fullfrogfilms.com. Bullfrog Films, Inc. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  9. ^ Lidstone, Dave (2011). "Brenda Longfellow at Carbon Arc". The Coast. www.thecoast.ca. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  10. ^ Biographical Notes - Speakers, Chairs and Keynotes (PDF). McGill. 2014. p. 7. Retrieved 14 June 2019.
  11. ^ Longfellow, Brenda; MacKenzie, Scott; Waugh, Thomas (2013). The Perils of Pedagogy: The Works of John Greyson. McGill Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-8896-7. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  12. ^ "Toronto on Film". www.ulupress.wlu.ca. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  13. ^ Armatage, Kay; Banning, Kass; Longfellow, Brenda; Marchessault, Janine (1999). Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema. University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442675223. ISBN 0-8020-4120-5. JSTOR 10.3138/9781442675223. S2CID 241300832. Retrieved 12 June 2019.

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