Embattled Shadows: A History of Canadian Cinema, 1895-1939 - Softcover

"Embattled Shadows is first rate, well written, well illustrated, well documented and backed up with a useful chronology of film in Canada ... Morris' book not only brings the history of early Canadian cinema vividly to life, it also reveals the strange and wonderful workings of the Canadian psyche and culture with startling clarity ... Page after well-researched page it becomes discouragingly clear that the failure of our present-day provincial and federal governments to fully support a film industry, especially a feature film industry, is just a repeat performance of a sell-out which has been going on since the beginning of the twentieth century." Robin Spry, Report. "Embattled Shadows is invaluable for the perspective it supplies, for its academic scrupulousness, and for its occasionally lively anecdotal material; it is, in other words, a solid history, the one by which all future histories of the period will be judged ... Morris [describes] the past very well, with authority ... Although the present lies outside his purview, Morris makes it obvious that those shadows are still up against the wall." Jay Scott, Globe and Mail.