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CERTAIN TENDENCIES IN CANADIAN CINEMA:
TEMPORARY INSANITY AND THE NATIONAL TAX-SHELTER MASQUERADE
by
Janice Laurie Kaye
___________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CRITICAL STUDIES)
August 2007
Copyright 2007 Janice Laurie Kaye
Object Description
| Title | Certain tendencies in Canadian cinema: temporary insanity and the national tax-shelter masquerade |
| Author | Kaye, Janice Laurie |
| Author email | creativecommunications@rogers.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinema-Television |
| Date defended/completed | 2007 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-08-08 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kinder, Marsha |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Alker, Hayward R. McPherson, Tara |
| Abstract | "Certain tendencies in Canadian cinema" refers to gendered national themes of masquerade and madness that appear in all periods of Canadian cultural production. Issues of self-identity and the repressed politics of the Two Solitudes reveal themselves in the coming-of-age genre, family dysfunction, the influence of international auteurs, connections with high culture and homosexuality, naming females in the name of the country, and obsessively repetitive tropes of homoeroticism, blindness and fetishistic amputations. These ideas are nowhere more significantly interwoven than in a period of English-Canadian feature film production of the 1970s and '80s called the Tax-Shelter Era. I call it the "TSE" an acronym for the Toronto Stock Exchange, because many movies were financed as tax-sheltered public offerings. Big-budget productions starring Americans attempted to carve out a place for Canadian film in world cinema by masquerading as American and essaying genres unfamiliar to the traditional Canadian filmmaking lexicon. Distinctively Canadian, or "DC" films, made at the same time and sometimes part of the TSE, were often critically acclaimed as artistic while their TSE cousins were reviled and ostracized. Both sets of films show a story structure I call "Narrativus Interruptus" which exhibits psychoanalytic aspects of rupture that undermine storytelling and genre. Both uncover a multitude of key theoretical issues touching on canon, cultural policy and global politics. Both were government-supported and operated with Canadian cultural, geographical and political specificity. Both illustrate thematic similarities between "popular" and art cinemas and map key relationships among nation, gender and madness. The TSE represents an illuminating case study in film of a performative national masquerade, in which one country dressed as another.; In view of globalization and a recent Canadian return to Hollywood North I call the Neo-TSE, it is more possible than ever to rethink the whole tax-shelter movement in transnational terms and to consider how and why a guerilla Canadian cinema could and should make a difference. |
| Keyword | certain tendencies; Canadian cinema; national and gender masquerade; tax-shelter era; Narrativus Interruptus; Two solitudes; Canadian movies; Canadian film industry; Canadian storytelling; distinctively Canadian; certain tendencies in Canadian cinema; international auteurs; female naming; Canadian movie themes; English-Canadian feature film; Canadian identity |
| Geographic subject (country) | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m754 |
| Rights | Kaye, Janice Laurie |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Kaye-20070808 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Kaye-20070808.pdf |
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| Full text | CERTAIN TENDENCIES IN CANADIAN CINEMA: TEMPORARY INSANITY AND THE NATIONAL TAX-SHELTER MASQUERADE by Janice Laurie Kaye ___________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CRITICAL STUDIES) August 2007 Copyright 2007 Janice Laurie Kaye |
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