Film and the CityFor many years, Canadian cinema was dominated by the documentarytradition of the National Film Board, which tended to promote what filmscholar Jim Leach has called the nationalist realistprojectfilms that privileged Canadas naturallandscape and sought to conjure a unified sense of Canadian identityfrom images of empty, untrammelled wilderness and bucolic farmlands. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of thisfundamentally colonial,