CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Quebec Sovereignty Movement, Florence Lawrence, Telefilm Canada
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Agenda: canadian cinema and box office failure, cultural sovereigntist vs. free-market positions, federal government initiatives. Canadian cinema: problems defining canadian cinema, like american films but with a smaller budget, more personalized, about the everyday person, documentaries. If canadian stories are worthwhile then companies will be sent to canada to make them : non-canadians, skewed sense of what canadian is. James freer, circa 1897: first canadian filmmaker, promoting immigration. Evangeline (1913: first canadian feature film, canadian bioscope company, halifax, ns, 75 minutes long, multiple location shoots, production summer-long and cost 000, commercial and critical success in both canada and the united states. Florence lawrence: the biograph girl, committed suicide. American-made canadian films: renfrew of the royal mounted. Only one in three canadians believes that our films are as good as those produced in other countries. We must get to the bottom of this problem as an industry- and that includes telefilm (2010 annual.
