Term
| Europe and Americas views on Latin cinema? |
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Definition
Came to shoot travel logs and exploit culture.
South Americans seeing everyday city scenes |
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| Sound in Latin American Cinema? |
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Definition
Allowed Comedians and Musical Acts to translate to genre
Expensive
Americans exploited this, creating cheap films to show LA
Chenchatta films |
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Term
| Issues with Latin American Cinema? |
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Definition
| Production, Exhibition: limited to urban centres due to lack of electricity, and Representation: ie. Mexican revolution where Americans faked footage of battle scenes with them winning. Mexicans are bandits. |
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Term
| Nuevo Cinema LatinoAmericano? |
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Definition
Neorealist
Socially and Politically Conscious
Film clubs/like New WAVE
Tropicalism
Cineovo: alternate to Hollywood Cinema |
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Term
| Beginning of Canadian Film Industry? |
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Definition
| Trudeaumania, Nationalism and Identity, FLQ Crisis, Separate from British |
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Definition
Glauber roca
1964
- Working class in fatal light
- Editing: sequence of religion faction attacks people, individual images viewer is implicit to create and understand narrative |
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Term
| Genres of films in Mexico? |
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Definition
| Political, Hollywood-esque, Renchara's (Cowboy Musicals), Melodrama |
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Definition
Fernando Solandes and Octavio Getina, 1968
- Animals hurt juxtaposing what it takes America to get them
- Montage |
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Definition
Cuban Institute of Art and Cinematography
Belief that
Cinema is art
Cinema can be used as an opinion |
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Definition
Santiago Alvarez, 1965
- Redefine montage
- Pirated news footage
- Call to action about American racism |
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Definition
Arthur Penn, 1967
- Shooting battles, social commentary, justification for violence, fighting unjust system, older people don't get them |
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Term
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Definition
| Allegorical, Surrealist, Carnivalesque |
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Term
| Beginning of American New Wave |
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Definition
Change, Conflict, Tension
Kennedy Assasinated, Civil Rights moment, Cold War, Vietnam War, Feminism, Watergate Scandal
FIRST TIME PEOPLE SEEING NEWS ON TV
Rise of youth culture, Black Power, Baby Boomers |
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Definition
Arthur Penn, 1967
- Shooting battles, social commentary, justification for violence, fighting unjust system, older people don't get them |
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Term
| Memories of Underdevelopment |
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Definition
Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1968, Cuba
- Clips happening, fragmented like memories |
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Term
| "Film is the aesthetics of hunger" |
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Definition
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Term
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| 1969: Manifesto for an imperfect Cinema, films should be imperfect, audience should make meaning in viewing |
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Term
| When was the 1st Argentinian film showcase? |
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Definition
| 1915: First festival to showcase 'themselves' |
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Term
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Definition
- Fight the system
- No singular aesthetic
- Formalism
- Encouraged to think
- Show reality including, colonialism, revolution, tyranny, oppression, class |
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Term
| New genres of American New Wave? |
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Definition
Youth Films: crit. of American Values
Blaxplotation: urban ghetto |
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Term
| New genres of American New Wave? |
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Definition
Youth Films: crit. of American Values
Blaxplotation: urban ghetto |
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Term
| Industry that lead to New Wave |
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Definition
- Loss of Revenue
- Globalization: success of Japan and Euro art movement
- Youths love french New Wave
- Uprising of trained directors (film schools) |
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Term
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Definition
1. Hollywood mode (neorealism)
2. New Wave (act of liberation)
3. Fight the system (violence and realism) |
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Term
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Definition
1974 - 1984
- Canadian film got 100% of taxes back
- 75% of post and production in Canada
- Led taxpayers money to make shitty American Films, why stigma around Canadian films being shit
- Brought lots of jobs
- Brought well trained filmmakers |
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Term
| Industry that lead to American New Wave |
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Definition
| - Loss of Revenue - Globalization: success of Japan and Euro art movement - Youths love french New Wave - Uprising of trained directors (film schools) |
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Definition
1967, Mike Nichols
- Youth Culture (uncomfortable where they are)
- Apathy about whats around him |
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Term
| End of The Production Code |
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Definition
| - Begin of MPAA Rating: G M R K later PG13 and PG |
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Term
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Definition
| 1969, Towards a Third Cinema: films that directly and explicitly fight the system |
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Term
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Definition
1967, Mike Nichols
- Youth Culture (uncomfortable where they are)
- Apathy about whats around him |
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Term
| End of The Production Code |
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Definition
| - Begin of MPAA Rating: G M R K later PG13 and PG |
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Term
| Key points of Latin American Cinema? |
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Definition
Underdeveloped
3rd World
6 Regional Markets
1st Indigenous Filmmaking
1910 - 1920's narrative films |
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Term
| Early Canadian Film Industry Problems |
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Definition
- America and British owned most of our theatres, showed their content
- Quota System failed
- CCL
- All the money was going to American films
- NFB not making films
- No place to exhibit Canadian films and no audiences |
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Term
| Pikes New Wave Themes (70's to 2000's) |
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Definition
1. Technology and its effects on the body
2. Alienation
3. Sexual Identity
4. Cultural Differences and Ethnic Identity |
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Term
| First English feature film by the NFB? |
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Definition
| Drylanders, Don Haldane, 1963 |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| Turns newsreels into narrative |
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Term
| Beginning of American New Wave |
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Definition
Change, Conflict, Tension
Kennedy Assasinated, Civil Rights moment, Cold War, Vietnam War, Feminism, Watergate Scandal
FIRST TIME PEOPLE SEEING NEWS ON TV
Rise of youth culture, Black Power, Baby Boomers |
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Term
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Definition
Festival of Festivals
- Vibrancy and energy to showcase films
- Iteration of TIFF |
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Term
| Canadian New Wave Characteristics |
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Definition
- Character oriented
- Artistic
- Play with narrative
- Canadian but with global diverse
- Often co-productions |
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Term
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Definition
Gordon Parks, 1969 (First African American director)
- Black teenager growing up in Kandas
- Newbis moral, coming from same place different circumstance |
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Term
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Definition
Ridley Scott, 1982
- Neo noir
- Office is film noir, 1940's detective |
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Term
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Definition
- Studio Mergers,
- Big films are a special attraction
- Effects (translated overseas better than drama, no language barrier)
- Home viewings
- Rise of VHS
- Multinational
- New audiences, development in TV |
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Definition
| Only known female director of the 30's and 40's |
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Term
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Definition
Tarantino, 1994
- 1st mainstream postmodern film
- Genres together
- Omages to filmmakers and movements
- Appropriation (rock music) |
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Term
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Definition
Don Owen, 1964
- Wannabe teen angst
- Boy moved out on his own in Toronto, turns to life of crime
- Improv, handheld 16mm |
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Term
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Definition
Alfonso Cuaron, 2001 (Mexico)
- Call on heritage
-Roadtrip to beach
- Showcase class and status (poverty of secondary characters) |
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Term
| When was the Steadicam first used? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| When was Digital Sound first used? |
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Definition
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Term
| Turning point of Canadian Film Industry? |
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Definition
| Expo 67: World Expo, opportunity to showcase Canada on the main stage |
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Term
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Definition
| Action and Adventure, Science Fiction, Horror, Comedies, Animation, Comic Book Adaptations, Sequels |
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Term
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Definition
- 1941, passed by Mackenzie King
- Designs the NFB and gives it direction
- Influences the way that film in Canada develops |
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Term
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Definition
John Singleton, 1991
- "none of the movies we saw growing up represented us"
- Film written about members of the NWA |
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Term
| American Blockbusters/Cinema made a substantial change when? |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| 1985, 2 women have to have a conversation about something other than a man |
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Term
| Women in Experimental Film? |
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Definition
40's, Maya Dairen, Mary Mecken
No large crew, no money, less funding and crew |
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Term
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Definition
End of WW2, Men returned from war, husbands breadwinners.
Rise of Macho Men (James Dean, etc.)
Academics are primarily white men
70-90's rise of female |
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Term
| 2013 - 2014 Women in View |
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Definition
- Great difference in male vs. female technology
- Greater women in makeup, costuming, accounting, etc. |
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Term
| Turning point in Toronto New Wave? |
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Definition
| "New cinema needs new freedoms. Freedom from the customary conventions of the trade (...)" Bruce McDonald, Edited Outlaw Edition, 1988 |
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Term
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Definition
- First narrative female director
- First narrative film: La Fee Aux Chox, 1986 |
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Term
| When everybody at the NFB was put on 3 month contracts, what happened? |
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Definition
1. Instability in production teams
2. Employees had to learn many different jobs
3. Employees had to be flexible |
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Term
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Definition
Chantal Akerman, 1977
- Doc about letters she wrote with her mother
- Experimental |
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Term
| Blockbuster influence of technology |
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Definition
| SFX, Steadicam, TV Films, Panning and Scanning, Colourization of B&W Films, Digital Sound: Robert Altmans 8 Track + Digital, Digital Filmmaking, VHS to DVD to Downloads, From film to binary code |
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Term
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Definition
Steven Spielberg, 1975
- template of summer blockbuster
- fear of water and sharks
- iconic score
- malls built, people go to it for AC, view films |
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Term
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Definition
City TV
- Great movies
- Unconventional standard of broadcast
- Soft core porn at night (80's) |
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Term
| I've Heard Mermaids Singing |
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Definition
Patricia Rozema, 1987
- Conscious of awkwardness and disconnect with society
- Falls in love with female boss |
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Term
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Definition
Laura Mulvey, we structure our visual culture around how men see
1. Person behind camera
2. Characters onscreen
3. Spectator |
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Term
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Definition
- first to use the term Documentary: creative treatment of actuality
- Looks at propaganda as a way of developing and sustaining social change |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
Kimberle Crenshaw, 1989
- concept often used in critical theories to described the ways oppressive institutions are interconnected and cannot be examined separately from one another |
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Term
| The Things I Cannot Change |
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Definition
Tanya Tree, Bailey Family
- 10 child family paid $500 for the shoot, dad said humiliation ruined his life |
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Term
| Toronto New Wave Dies in 94-95, why? |
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Definition
Directors move to television, commercials
Major Federal and Provincial Funding Cuts (Telefilm)
Money Dries up |
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Term
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Definition
Massey Commission: changes the way we view cultural industries in Canada
Movement to educational film provider
Unit B: stylistic and experimental
French Section: Cinema Verite: object in documentary (Jean Rouche) |
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Definition
William MacGillivray, 1987
- Models nude for art classes, becomes an artist |
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Term
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Definition
1. Studio D: worlds first women production centre
2. Emerging filmmakers
3. Returning interest of documentary tradition |
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Term
| 3 Successful Canadian Films |
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Definition
1. Isabelle, 1968
2. Going Down the Road, 1978
3. Mon Uncle Antoine, 1971
- Ambivalent characters, Artistic success |
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Term
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Definition
Bruce MacDonald, 1991
- Motivations are bad but we feel affinity for her because of humor
- Quirky characters
- Intentional stupidity, but art to it |
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Term
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Definition
- Trying to show Canada to Canadians
- Films became cultural artifacts of whats happening in post-WW2 |
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Term
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Definition
Peter Mettler, 1994
- Reflective of technology
- "Is film a surrogate for real experience?"
- Intention of seeing northern lights in Manitoba |
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Term
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Definition
Jane Campion, 1993
- 2nd Women nominated for Academy Award
- Mute women with daughter |
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Term
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Definition
- LIFT
- Perspectives Canada
- OFDC
- CDC |
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Term
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Definition
- Umbrella term referring to propaganda
- Studies the impact of media on the population
- Often funded by the government and military |
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Term
| Grant Given to Canadian film Industry |
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Definition
Grant given in 1967: becomes Telefilm in 1984
(3 successful films came from it) |
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Term
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Definition
- Moana
- Considered one of the founders of the NFB |
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Term
| Greirson invited to Canada to consult with the government about? |
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Definition
1, how film can be used
2, what it is about in Canada
PROBLEMS
1, lack of means
2, no governing direction
He wanted NFB to be powerful |
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Term
| What did Grierson want to do? |
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Definition
Enforce creativity and employ it. Put everyone at NFB on 3 month contracts.
Griersons changes were not reflective of Canadian diversity |
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Term
| Characteristics of Toronto New Wave |
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Definition
- Not commercial
- Personal
- Humans interacting with technology
- Diversity and community in alienation
- Queers on screen |
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Term
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Definition
1. Quiet revolution
2. Tech interst
3. Challenge for Change program (Tanya Tree) |
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