FILM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cannes Film Festival, Denis Villeneuve, Auteur Theory
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Contemporary quebec cinema ii - the director as auteur. Identity is a production that is never complete, that is always in process, it is always evolving. It is a very abstract term: cultural identity has two types, homogeneous identity is the idea of one shared culture. We all have the same identity in general: heterogeneous identity has critical points of similarity and critical points of significant differences. The differences constitute what we really are or rather what we have become. Cultural identity is a matter of being as well as of becoming: when we talk about cultural identity we are talking about the unstable points of identification made within the discourses of history and culture. There are many factors that influence our understanding of both the identities. Cultural identity is not an essence but a positioning: discourses are constructed through memory, fantasy, narrative, and myth.
