Research guides: Canadian Studies: Literature & Film

Literature

Below are selected reference sources for Canadian literature (online sources, followed by print sources).

For additional reference sources, here are links to two Catalogue searches: (1) CanLit resources in the Reference section at Robarts (4th floor); (2) CanLit bibliographies at U of T libraries. And, here's a useful research guide: Canadian Literature Resources at E.J. Pratt Library.

Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window
A fulll-text collection of poetry, prose and drama in English, along with criticism and reference sources.
Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Useful for researching authors (including Canadian authors); includes critical essays on authors and their works and biographical information.

Oxford companion to Canadian literature, 2nd ed. [online]
Oxford University Press, 2006.
Annotated bibliography of Canada's major authors [print]
ECW Press, 1979-1995.
Bibliographie de la littérature franco-ontarienne, 1610-1993 [print]
Vermillon, c2000.
Canadian children's books : a critical guide to authors and illustrators [print]
Oxford University Press, c2000.
Caribbean and South Asian writers in Canada : a bibliography of their works and of English-language criticism [print]
Scarecrow Press, 2007.
Character parts : who's really who in CanLit [print]
A.A. Knopf Canada, 2003.
The concise Oxford companion to Canadian literature [print]
Oxford University Press, 2011.
Dictionnaire des écrivains émigrés au Québec, 1800-1999 [print]
Éditions Nota bene, 2003.
Dictionnaire des personnages du roman québécois : 200 personnages, des origines à 2000 [print]
L'Instant même, c2003.
Encyclopedia of literature in Canada [print]
University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Literary research and Canadian literature : strategies and sources [print]
Scarecrow Press, 2011.
Littérature amérindienne du Québec : écrits de langue française [print]
Hurtubise HMH, 2004.
Odysseys home : mapping African-Canadian literature [print]
University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Queer CanLit : Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) literature in English [print]
Published by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 2008.
Reference sources for Canadian literary studies [print]
University of Toronto Press, c2005.

Film

Below are selected reference sources for Canadian film (online sources, followed by print sources).

If you would like to browse through all sorts of resources related to Canadian film, here's a link to a search for relevant material in the Library Catalogue.

Canadian Women Film Directors Database / Base de données sur les réalisatrices canadiennes [online]
Canadian Feature Film Database / Base de données de longs métrages canadiens [online]
Library and Archives Canada
Cinémathèque québécoise [online]
Library and Archives Canada: Films, Videos and Sound Recordings [online]
Media Commons: Audiovisual [online]
NFB campus [online])
Watch films online from the National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada.
Canada and Canadians in feature films : a filmography, 1928-1990 [print]
University of Guelph, 1996.
Canadian film and video : a bibliography and guide to the literature = Film et vidéo canadiens : bibliographie analytique sur le cinéma et la vidéo [print]
University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Le dictionnaire du cinéma québécois, 4th ed. [print]
Boréal, 2006
Film Canada yearbook [print]
Guide to the cinema(s) of Canada [print]
Greenwood Press, 2001.
The NFB film guide : the productions of the National Film Board of Canada from 1939 to 1989 [print]
National Film Board, c1991.
Take One's essential guide to Canadian film [print]
University of Toronto Press, 2001.

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