POL 128 Chapter Notes -First Age, Gfk Entertainment Charts, Oligopoly
19 Feb 2014
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Purpose and style early documentaries and publicity financed films and non fictions. The first age of subsidy- cfdc (canadian film development corp) in 1967. The second age of subsidy 1970s re exam federal film policy. Canadian media ownership and control in an age of global megamedia empires. Sony ex trend of control of info, ideas, entertainment and popular culture by a handful of mammoth private organizations. Past media ownership and control have been concentrated in the hands of local, regional and national elites, today it is feared by mass media which are dominating by less than a 12 corporate giants. Globalization of media has raised a number of concerns about homo, access to and suppression of info and ideas. American tv worldwide reflects to entire world. Throughout present century there has been a steady trend toward increasing concentration of media control in the hands of a decreasing pool of owners.
