FIST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Telling Stories, Vaporization, Atom Egoyan
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Realism is at the root of the canadian psyche (katherine monk 10) We have to find what is uniquely canadian because without that uniquely canadian attitude, you are just making very cheap american movies (larry kent, director) We just have a sense that these are realist. Is canadian cinema real because of how cheap it is. What is the legitimate search for what is canadian. Documentary was good because of its social range, and its ways to shape what people would think and see. The grierson project of documentary and truth is well intentioned, but short sighted* Problems with documentary is not unbiased; truth is not easily communicated; identities (nation and otherwise) are unstable and always shifting* All docs come from a director with their views. The identities that doc films try to show us are always unstable and shifting. Doc depends on a whole series of unreliable problematic assumptions.
