Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Cordell Barker, Cinema Of The United States, Independent Film

• School: Western University
• Department: Film Studies
• Course: Film Studies 1020E
• Professor: Barbara Bruce

Document Summary

Film week 21 national cinema: canada / independent culture. Last night (1998: director: don mckellar. The cat came back (short film) (1988: director: cordell barker. Tendency to assume canadian films are shitty: true in the cinema of english canada , poor quality films were made in the 70s were the result of this. Black christmas was said to have created the slasher genre. One bad film reflects on all canadian cinema this is a difference between hollywood and canadian films. Canadian films and filmmakers suffer from lack of funding, lack of distribution and exhibition outlets and a lack of importing our content onto. Cineplex and famous players largest theatre chains are owned and operated by canadians and show mostly hollywood films and will bump. Canadian films to make room for box office american films: even if the canadian films are doing better they will bump the. Canadian distributors are responsible for 100% of the content of canadian films.