Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Subplot, Metanarrative, Cinema Of Canada
15 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
How shall i dig out these eyes of mine? : ararat and the politics of genocide. Imagined political community benedict anderson suggestion being that the national nations are manufactured by stories, myths, wars, sporting events etc. they create an image that there is dividing lines of nations. In order for this concept to work, language is crucial: communication in the nation has to happen usually comes from the media. Nation states are products of modern times (communication and technology) The cultural output of all kinds tended to be homogenized: they all tended to be influenced by one another within a framework. Canada, along the way has become a very ethnically diverse country. Native canadian cinema: atanarjuat: the fast runner, 2001 (major success in canada, as well as international. Could be argued that native cinema is the most canadian. This movie was important because it was a representation of the inuit people/an inuit myth, told by inuit people themselves. )
