HIST261 Lecture Notes - Listerine, Cfrb, National Film Board Of Canada
25 Feb 2014
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The emergence of the cult of the celebrity and mass information. Hundreds of thousands of middle class cnd"s are buying american magazines by the end of. Wwi, and by 1925 for every 1 cnd magazine (hereafter mags) that is bought 8 american one are read. The cnd publishing companies are worried that american mags are immoral, salacious, killing a cnd job industry and undermining cnd national identity. By wwi most cities and small centers have several theatres and by the 1920"s there were over. Theatres asides from showing films were also used to show news reels, as a sort of precursor to contemporary tv news. Cinema was popular early on with the poor and recent immigrants as it was inexpensive and it was a useful tool with which to learn. The cult of celebrity was a concern as it promoted a flattening of culture across the continent.
