CMNS 210 Chapter Notes -Social Hygiene Movement, Educational Film, Liberal Democracy
8 Dec 2013
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The national film board and government (druick, 2007) 259 national film board of canada: state-sponsored film making institution specializing in short non-theatrical documentary films. Free trade in commercial cinema is main priority in today"s global film industry. Nfb is anachronism, remnant of socialist alternative to capital-intensive rationalized systems of global hollywood, bollywood & nollywood. Nfb has faced many crises since its inception. Role: opposing government (conservative party) & private sector. Biggest advocates: social reformers aiming to use the medium of film as a communications technology for consolidating middle-ground opinion in & about. Nfb emerged out of british documentary movement orgnanized to appropriate realism"s more radical potential & apply form to liberal nation-building project. Documentary embodies same contradictions as welfare stat alongside which it developed. Elements developed as response to foundationally radical socialist challenge posed by capitalist societies. Documentary film and welfare state administration relied on instrumentally predictive mode of social control that ultimately undermined their seemingly radical trappings.
