Six Degrees of Film, Social, and Cultural History: The Fogo Island Film Project of 1967 and the "Newfoundland Renaissance"

The Fogo Island film partnership of the National Film Board and the Memorial University of Newfoundland Extension Service helped establish a fisheries cooperative on Fogo Island and, in the process, a template for the NFB’s Challenge for Change program. The Fogo Island films have achieved near-mythi...

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Main Author: Newhook, Susan
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Language:English
Published: Acadiensis Press 2010
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spelling ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/18420 2023-05-15T18:32:02+02:00 Six Degrees of Film, Social, and Cultural History: The Fogo Island Film Project of 1967 and the "Newfoundland Renaissance" Newhook, Susan 2010-06-06 text/html application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/18420 eng eng Acadiensis Press https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/18420/19901 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/18420/19902 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/18420 Copyright (c) 2015 Acadiensis Acadiensis; Vol. XXXIX, No. 2 Summer/Autumn - Été/Automne 2010 1712-7432 0044-5851 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2010 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:40:48Z The Fogo Island film partnership of the National Film Board and the Memorial University of Newfoundland Extension Service helped establish a fisheries cooperative on Fogo Island and, in the process, a template for the NFB’s Challenge for Change program. The Fogo Island films have achieved near-mythic status in film studies and film history as a coup for the NFB, but the role of the Newfoundland partners has been largely ignored. This article addresses this gap in the literature, and traces how the project and the process behind it helped to spark the "cultural revolution" of the 1970s in Newfoundland and Labrador. Résumé Le partenariat en cinéma formé par l’Office national du film (ONF) et le Memorial University of Newfoundland Extension Service à l’île Fogo a aidé à l’établissement d’une coopérative de pêche dans l’île Fogo et, par la même occasion, à la création d’un modèle de référence pour le programme Société nouvelle, de l’ONF. Les films de l’île Fogo ont acquis un sorte de statut mythique dans les études cinématographiques et l’histoire du cinéma comme un beau coup de l’ONF, mais on a largement ignoré le rôle des partenaires terre-neuviens. Cet article veut corriger cette lacune dans la documentation et relate comment le projet et le processus qui y a mené ont contribué à déclencher la « révolution culturelle » des années 1970 à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. Article in Journal/Newspaper Terre-Neuve University of Newfoundland University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals Fogo ENVELOPE(-54.281,-54.281,49.717,49.717) Fogo Island ENVELOPE(-54.165,-54.165,49.667,49.667) Newfoundland
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description The Fogo Island film partnership of the National Film Board and the Memorial University of Newfoundland Extension Service helped establish a fisheries cooperative on Fogo Island and, in the process, a template for the NFB’s Challenge for Change program. The Fogo Island films have achieved near-mythic status in film studies and film history as a coup for the NFB, but the role of the Newfoundland partners has been largely ignored. This article addresses this gap in the literature, and traces how the project and the process behind it helped to spark the "cultural revolution" of the 1970s in Newfoundland and Labrador. Résumé Le partenariat en cinéma formé par l’Office national du film (ONF) et le Memorial University of Newfoundland Extension Service à l’île Fogo a aidé à l’établissement d’une coopérative de pêche dans l’île Fogo et, par la même occasion, à la création d’un modèle de référence pour le programme Société nouvelle, de l’ONF. Les films de l’île Fogo ont acquis un sorte de statut mythique dans les études cinématographiques et l’histoire du cinéma comme un beau coup de l’ONF, mais on a largement ignoré le rôle des partenaires terre-neuviens. Cet article veut corriger cette lacune dans la documentation et relate comment le projet et le processus qui y a mené ont contribué à déclencher la « révolution culturelle » des années 1970 à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.
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