Canadian Dreams and American Control: The Political Economy of the Canadian Film IndustryA history of the Canadian film industry from its inception to 1980s, providing a chronological record of the conflicting priorities between American capital, which seeks to shape the Canadian film industry to its own image, and Canada's stated goal, which is to serve the Canadian people with films autonomously conceived, produced, and exhibited. |
Contents
Illustrations | 13 |
Acknowledgments | 27 |
Illustrations | 46 |
Jule Allen | 52 |
Adolph Zukor | 58 |
Carl Laemmle | 71 |
Will H Hays and Jesse L Lasky | 81 |
6 | 95 |
N A Taylor | 147 |
Jack Valenti | 165 |
Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller | 187 |
Scanners | 204 |
The Cineplex | 222 |
Garth H Drabinsky | 224 |
National | 251 |
Appendix of Tables | 277 |
Nicholas Schenck | 98 |
J Arthur Rank being received by Canadians | 106 |
Control | 132 |
Eric Johnston | 140 |
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Common terms and phrases
Allens American film industry American majors box-office British film Cana Canadian feature film Canadian film industry Canadian filmmakers Canadian government Canadian market Canadian motion picture Canadian producers Canadian-owned capital Capital Cost Allowance capitalists CFDC Cineplex Odeon Corporation Columbia Combines Investigation Act competition Cooper coproductions cultural dian Disney dominant Drabinsky economic Famous Players feature film feature film industry federal film distribution Film Policy films in Canada financing first-run films foreign Garth Drabinsky gross Hollywood Ibid independent distributors independent exhibitors industry in Canada investment investors lobby major circuits ment million minister monopoly Montreal motion picture motion picture industry MPEAA Nathanson National Film Odeon Theatres Ontario operated Ottawa Paramount percent Players and Odeon president profits Quebec released rental revenues screen quota sector Spryfield Telefilm Canada television theater circuit theatrical market tion Toronto trade Twentieth Century-Fox U.S. distributors United Artists vertically integrated Zukor