{"product_id":"9780228020332-winter-kept-us-warm","title":"Winter Kept Us Warm","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely considered to be English Canada's first queer film, \u003cem\u003eWinter Kept Us Warm\u003c\/em\u003e explores a romance between two young men at the University of Toronto in the early 1960s, a moment when homosexuality was still a crime in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA true student film, \u003cem\u003eWinter\u003c\/em\u003e was written and directed by David Secter, a twenty-two-year-old English major, shot with amateur actors and a volunteer crew, and completed on a budget of only $8,000. Against the odds, the film was a huge success. Lauded by critics at home and abroad, it was selected to open the Commonwealth Film Festival, played art house cinemas across the United States and Europe, and became the first Anglo-Canadian fiction feature to screen at Cannes. Influential film journals including \u003cem\u003eSight and Sound\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCahiers du cinéma\u003c\/em\u003e covered it, as did mainstream publications such as \u003cem\u003eVariety\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e. David Cronenberg has cited it as influential on his own work. Despite this acclaim, the film has largely vanished from the cultural consciousness and few queer people today have even heard of it, let alone seen it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith this new addition to the Queer Film Classics series, Chris Dupuis looks at the disconnect between the film's historical importance and its subsequent disappearance, examining how the story of \u003cem\u003eWinter Kept Us Warm\u003c\/em\u003e can serve as a starting point for intergenerational queer dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41793389297761,"sku":"9780228020332","price":14.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39473562.jpg?v=1769497053","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780228020332-winter-kept-us-warm","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}