Böcker av Dominique Bregent-Heald

Northern Getaway investigates the connections between film and tourism of the 1890s through the 1950s. Using evidence from archival sources and current scholarship in film history and tourism studies, Dominique Brégent-Heald demonstrates that Canada was an innovator in employing film to project a recognizable destination brand.

Examines the intersection of North American borderlands and culture as portrayed through early twentieth-century cinema. Drawing on hundreds of films, Dominique Bregent-Heald investigates the significance of national borders; the ever-changing concepts of race, gender, and enforced boundaries; and the racialized ideas of criminality that painted the borderlands as unsafe.