Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Metanarrative
16 Dec 2018
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Imagined political community something manufactured, constructed through stories language is crucial, being able to communicate images and storytelling are vital to communicating movies have always been essential to nation building cultural output of a country tended to be homogenized. Quebecois cinema, english canadian cinema, indigenous cinema, diasporic cinema. Atanarjuat: indigenous film from canada- not produced by outsiders, essential. Diaspora: people who have spread or been dispersed from their homeland. Cheaper to make things in canada because of the exchange rate. How does storytelling create a sense of identity for the characters. The importance of art and maintaining the memory of traumatic events. What do such traumatic events mean to people who experienced them, and to later generations who might have only heard about them. The perception of these events through someone who may have just heard about them, not been a part of them of a part of the culture that experienced them.
