terms are justifiably elusive. The familiar concept of "Canadian culture", and hence Canadian cinema, within critical terminology is essentially based on the principle that the ideology of a national identity, supposedly limited by such tangible parameters as lines on a map, emerges from a common geographical and mythological experience among its people. The concept that cultural products produced in Canada will be somehow innately "Canadian" in form and content first presupposes the existence of such
film, I found a challenge in making any concretely positive statements about it, or the state of Canada's film industry at the time. I asked myself about the effect this film had on Canada's film industry, wondering primarily if the film's success in Canada - it won a total of 6 Canadian Film Awards including best feature and best director - came not from a poignant portrayal of Canadian culture, but rather from a "Canadianization" of the typical American thriller. I questioned the details of the film's
domestic cinema is foreign to Canadian audiences”? More than ninety percent of screen time in commercial cinemas in Canada is dedicated to Hollywood films, and between 94 and 97 percent of Canadian box office grosses is derived from non-Canadian films (Lorimer, Gasher, & Skinner, 2008, p. 169). Why do the authors say that “Ottawa has perceived cinema for most of its history as a medium of nation-building”? Since the beginning of the Canadian film industry, the government of Canada has invested
A challenge that faces both Canadian cinema and women’s cinema is the idea of the male gaze. The film industry is a phallocentric institution that since its inception has always faced the problem of objectifying women. As well Canada has faced similar problems long before the existence of film in the form of the colonial gaze, with attempts from both Britain and France to take what Canada had to offer and make it its own. In the film Away From Her (2006) Sarah Polley recognizes this problem that
addresses his filmmaking saying that he takes aspects from different film styles and appropriates them into his own work. In The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Maddin uses a combination of French Surrealist filmmaking and classical American Hollywood cinema, specifically melodrama, to create his own style. In an article by William Beard, Steven Shaviro talks about Maddin’s filmmaking, and he links Surrealism and melodrama together saying, “Maddin’s films are driven by a tension between romantic excess
governments was not even mention. The film was criticized by United States, Canada, and British and New Zealand’s critics for the role each country had in the film as it shows the film is deceptive in telling the truth and accuracy of the event. United States had its role glorified that it seemed to have done most of the work; while Canada had its role minimized, and that the film was made out to have a small role that Canada had with United States, but some countries like New Zealand was not even mentioned
Many people argue whether not Canada has any culture at all, and why American culture seems to have such a big influence on Canadian music, art and television. Over the years the Canadian government has tried to protect and develop talent in Canada. Once British traditions started to fade away, the influence on Canada from America became stronger. If Canada was to become a strong independent country they needed their own identity. The government support has played an important role in the arts development
name a few, that gains academic and popular attention. However, it is cinema with its reach of tens, possibly hundreds, of millions viewers that can be said to have a greater potential in drawing upon experiences of the South Asian Diaspora. A feature role is played by Film in constructions of South Asian diasporic cultures, partly due to its importance in South Asia itself. Indian cinema or to say Bollywood, the Hindi language cinema based in Bombay, also has global presence and popularity in the South
Is Canada going to be swallowed up by the United States? A political cartoon based on Pierre Trudeau's famous quote, 'Living next to you (the United States) is like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twist and grunt.'; was made. This means when something occurs in the United States, we too are affected. If the United States goes to war, because we belong to N.A.T.O., Canada would support their position. If McDonalds, an American
who was full of the wise the life experience left, always knew about my interest in movies. She feed my vain for the art. Even though her religion, she professed Adventist of seven-day religion, didn’t let her go to the cinema, she always found the way to took me to the cinema. She and I enjoyed watch movies. We used to sit in the darkness room, with our faces illuminated from the reflection of the light which rebooted from the screen, both absorbs in the plot of the movie which made us laughed
1. Digital cinema The technology that was used now in theatre is digital cinema. In addition to the equipment already in a cinema film based on a screen of DCI-compliant digital cinema requires a digital projector and a computer known as a "server". For a typical film characteristic of this file will be anywhere between 90 and 300 GB of data (about two to six times the information of a Blu-ray disc) and can reach as physical delivery on a conventional computer hard disk or via satellite or fiber-optic
have lead to Canada becoming the multicultural country that it is today. Immigrant's were not always accepted with open arms, during the war years of 1914 - 1945 the implementation of the Chinese Immigration Act displayed the unwelcoming attitude Canadians had towards immigrants. The Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 prevented the immigration of almost anyone from China and Chinese Canadians did not receive full citizenship rights, only 15 immigrants from China were allowed into Canada between 1923
is the necessary and logical conclusion of American culture – embodied by Hollywood cinema – colonizing Canada so as to create a new locality between the two sister nations. Or, as Appadurai puts it: “All locality building has a moment of colonization” (Appadurai, pp. 183) – even though the exact moment in this case is difficult to specify. Still, Hollywood’s production of a neighborhood between the U.S. and Canada aptly suits Appadurai’s overall characterization. This is especially true for the line
Thus, in general we have a stable demand – but that can grow with a view that Canada is recognized as a country that needs immigrants and their population has grown in this regard – where Canadians watch at least one movie a week and this total only 16% goes to the movie theatres, showing therefore the great earning potential this market has. d) Technological The speed at which technology changes makes predictions of this variable increasingly complex to be analyzed, because at any moment may come
Imagine enjoying a movie at Cinema 10, eating a meal at Taco Bell, or even sitting in a history class at Carman-Ainsworth High School while people all around you are carrying loaded guns! Although this may seem unbelievable, it is possible because the second amendment of the United States Constitution gives citizens the right to possess and carry guns. It is understandable that Americans would want to possess guns such as shotguns and rifles for the popular sport of hunting. However, it is
town had a cinema. People would go to watch a movie several times a week because it was so cheap and easy to access. It was a way for people to escape from the world’s problems. The history of movies began in the late 1800’s with the invention of “motion
discrimination experienced by Aboriginal women and girls in Canada as a national tragedy. The national tragedy is illustrated as the overlooked murders and disappearances of an estimated 500 Aboriginal women in Canada over the past 30 years (Finding Dawn, 2006). It was apparent while viewing this documentary that embedded historical, social and economic factors have negatively contributed to this national tragedy receiving meager attention in Canada. Thus, the issues presented in Finding Dawn is in fact
explores the portrayals of North American Natives through a century of cinema. These images of Natives have shaped people's opinions and views about Aboriginals. Through these depictions, it has led to stereotypes that caused discrimination among the First Nations. Reel Injun emphasizes not to generalize indigenous people through media and films. Plot Synopsis Neil Diamond traveled to America and explored how Hollywood cinema, dating back from the silent film era to this day had shaped the concept
as “the beginning of a beginning” by Peter Harcourt. These two films were originally documentaries commissioned by the National Film Board (NFB) but made to be into feature films. In fact, they are considered to be the first real narrative films in Canada (Lecture 1). The reason they are “the beginning of the beginning” is because they reflect the different relationship of the French and English films to the documentary traditions of the NFB (Lecture 1) – essentially, the French versus the English
Muybridge actually came close to producing cinema himself with his projection device the 'Zoöpraxiscope '. With this device, Muybridge lectured across Europe and America, using the Zoöpraxiscope