POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Canadian Cultural Protectionism, Canadian Content

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 128
• Professor: Joseph Zboralski

Document Summary

Brookes filters (factors determining which movies/shows are created: economic. Owned by a private a private business or individual. Create media products to get the biggest audience possible (more money) Profits are determined by how much audience a company has (more advertisers) e. g. super bowl ads. Do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to (cid:449)orr(cid:455) a(cid:271)out 28548, (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal: legal regularity. Canadian content rules passed in 1960s made to protect canadian culture. Creates jobs, gives us sense of our culture. In france certain % of movies are made in the european. Once upon a tome government banned some movies. Provincial film review boards, 40-50 people classify movies, whether they should be age restricted or not etc. , instead of banning them. Classification impacts what types of movies are made: technological. Movies made today are very different than 50 years ago. We get used to certain things in movies (noise, brightness, movement etc.