Reel Artists: National Film Board of Canada portrayals of contemporary Aboriginal and Inuit artists and their art ...
Bibliography: p. 214-241 ... : The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) promotes itself as an educative force in Canada. The NFB's mandate to bring Canada to Canadians motivated a 'teaching' agenda inherent in its films. Beginning in the 1950s, the NFB began to produce films about cont...
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/17096 https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/41929 |
| Summary: | Bibliography: p. 214-241 ... : The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) promotes itself as an educative force in Canada. The NFB's mandate to bring Canada to Canadians motivated a 'teaching' agenda inherent in its films. Beginning in the 1950s, the NFB began to produce films about contemporary Aboriginal artists. In so doing, it provided Canadians with one of the few sources for information about Canadian Aboriginal art until the 1980s when a number of publications and exhibitions began to emerge. The NFB films were meant to 'instruct' ordinary Canadians about Indigenous peoples and their culture. This dissertation investigates how the NFB constructed representations of Aboriginal art and artists by visually unpacking documentary films created between 1955 and 1988. By interpreting the visual language in the films, this interdisciplinary study analyzes how the NFB framed contemporary Aboriginal art and presented it to viewers. Theoretical and pragmatic applications of post-structural semiotics support the discussion of the representations. ... |
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