Canadian Cinema and the Intellectual Milieu

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-34
Author(s):  
Richard Cavell
Keyword(s):  
Documentary Film ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Global Village ◽  
David Cronenberg ◽  
Atom Egoyan ◽  
Intellectual Milieu ◽  
John Greyson ◽  
Northrop Frye

Canadian cinema has evolved precariously between the myth of its encounter with an implacable nature and the sense that it is the product of a deterministic technology. Both positions derive from the Canadian intellectual tradition, particularly as articulated by Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan. Frye stands behind Bruce Elder’s work on film philosophy, which, paired with Frye’s notion that movies derive from melodrama, provides a productive framework for understanding the work of both Guy Maddin and John Greyson. Similarly, McLuhan’s writings on technology inform the work of David Cronenberg and Joyce Wieland, while Atom Egoyan has taken up McLuhan’s notion of the global village. Complicating these influences has been Canada’s proximity to the most powerful film empire on earth, which has tended to push it toward documentary film—as in the work of John Grierson—and away from the commercially oriented products generated south of the border.

Still Here, Still Queer? Rethinking Queer Canadian Cinemas/Canadian Cinemas Queered

2019 ◽  
pp. 284-306
Author(s):  
Thomas Waugh ◽  
Fulvia Massimi ◽  
Lisa Aalders
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Fluidity ◽  
David Cronenberg ◽  
Queer Cinema ◽  
Denys Arcand ◽  
Atom Egoyan ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
John Greyson ◽  
Lea Pool

This chapter pushes for a broad revision of Canadian national cinemas, arguing for queerness as their privileged mode of expression. The prominence of queerness in the Canadian cinematic imaginary is explored throughout four sections that demonstrate the uniqueness of Canadian cinemas over examples of queer cinema elsewhere. First, the roots of queer cinema/cinema queered in Canada are located in the work of pre-Stonewall pioneers such as Claude Jutra, Norman McLaren, and David Secter. Second, queerness is seen informing the institutional and political structures of Canadian cinema through practices of activism around identities, intersectionality, and serostatus. Third, queerness is recentered in the oeuvre of the nonqueer auteurs Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg, and Denys Arcand, as a synonym for sexual fluidity and a symptom of sexual/national anxiety. Finally, the contributions of Léa Pool, John Greyson, Thirza Cuthand, and Xavier Dolan uncover the intersectional heritage and souls of contemporary queer Canadian cinemas.

scholarly journals The Letters of Marshall McLuhan and Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Privacy/Private Matters

Laws ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Elaine Kahn
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Personal Privacy ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Pierre Elliott Trudeau ◽  
Global Communications ◽  
The Relationship

There has been a paradigm shift in global communications since the death many years ago of prominent Canadians Marshall McLuhan and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The correspondence between the two friends, from 1968 to 1980, presciently touched on our contemporary wired global village and the challenges it presents to personal privacy and to freedom of expression. I examine the relationship between the two men, as laid out in their letters and, to a lesser extent, in secondary sources, highlighting matters of privacy and media. Privacy hovers over the correspondence, even when it is not the stated topic. McLuhan, who is credited with the term “global village”, discussed with Trudeau the effect of new media on people’s notions of tribe and identity and privacy. Proving a direct influence from one man to the other, in either direction, is not possible, but there is much to play with. The gap is, as McLuhan often said, “where the action is”.

scholarly journals In Forming Software: Systems, Structuralism, Demythification

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Edward A. Shanken
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Global Village ◽  
New Era ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
Robert Rauschenberg ◽  
Software Information

In the mid-1960s, Marshall McLuhan prophesied that electronic media were creating an increasingly interconnected global village. Such pronouncements popularized the idea that the era of machine-age technology was drawing to a close, ushering in a new era of information technology. This shift finds parallels in a wave of major art performances and exhibitions between 1966-1970, including nine evenings: theatre and engineering at the New York Armory, spearheaded by Robert Rauschenberg, Billy Klüver, and Robert Whitman in 1966; The Machine: As Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, curated by Pontus Hultén at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MOMA) in 1968; Cybernetic Serendipity, curated by Jasia Reichardt at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 1968; and Software, Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art, curated by Jack Burnham at the Jewish Museum in New York.

scholarly journals Arnaldo Antunes, poesia primitiva / Arnaldo Antunes, primitive poetry

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-307
Author(s):  
Jorge Fernando Barbosa do Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Direct Interaction ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Fixed Space ◽  
The Universe

RESUMO: O artigo analisa a poesia multimídia de Arnaldo Antunes a partir de seu exercício de manipulação dos recursos materiais da palavra, tendo como base o deslocamento do espaço fixo da página do livro para a liberdade do universo de atuação do hipertexto. O trabalho, a partir da análise do poema “sem saída”, de Augusto de Campos, investiga também a poesia interativa, disponibilizada na internet, que tem como condição de desenvolvimento, a interação direta com o interlocutor. Além disso, o artigo analisa a posição de Arnaldo Antunes sobre o aproveitamento dos mais modernos recursos tecnológicos para o estabelecimento da “arte primitiva”, baseada na ideia de “aldeia global”, de Marshall McLuhan.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Arnaldo Antunes; poesia multimídia; hipertexto; Marshall McLuhan; aldeia global.ABSTRACT: The article analyzes the multimedia poetry of Arnaldo Antunes from his exercise of manipulation of the word material resources, based on the displacement of fixed space from the page of the book to the freedom of the universe of hypertext performance. The work, from the analysis of the poem “sem saída”, by Augusto de Campos, also investigates interactive poetry, available on the internet, which has the direct interaction with the interlocutor as a condition of development. Furthermore, the article analyzes the position of Arnaldo Antunes on the use of the most modern technological resources for the establishment of the “primitive art”, based on the idea of “global village” of Marshall McLuhan.KEYWORDS: Arnaldo Antunes; multimedia poetry; hypertext; Marshall McLuhan; global village.

Fables of the Reconstruction

2011 ◽  
pp. 254-277
Author(s):  
David Bimler ◽  
John Kirkland
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Situationist International ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Nonlinear Modes ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Shortwave Radio ◽  
New Business ◽  
E Mail ◽  
New Business Models

The ’60s and ’70s of the last century were effervescent with visions of a radical break between the past and the future. In their manifestos, Marshall McLuhan and the Situationist International (among others) foresaw a Global Village, a Society of Spectacle, post-literacy and nonlinear modes of consciousness evolving from mass media (e.g., Debord, 1977; McLuhan, 1964). More recently much of this rhetoric has been recycled, with similar claims made that contemporary communications and broadcast media (e-mail and the WWW) will lead to new paradigms, new business models, new economies. It remains to be seen whether current information technology will live up to these promises, or stay in a niche role, like shortwave radio or the Parisian pneumatic post. Examples of truly dead media are hard to find (Sterling, n.d.); even CB radio may retain a few adherents somewhere.

scholarly journals From Marshall McLuhan to Harold Innis, or From the Global Village to the World Empire

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaëtan Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
General Trend ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
Global Village ◽  
The World ◽  
Evolution Of Communication ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

The author presents a personal reading of the pioneering contribution to communication studies made by two Canadian thinkers: Marshall McLuhan and Harold A. Innis. Running counter to the general trend stressing their similarities, he highlights their differences. Rejecting their techological-determinist standpoint, the author proposes a comprehensive and critical summary of their analytical frameworks and methodologies, seeking to assess the influence they have had on his own perspective, tracing the contributions they have made to the evolution of communication research. The author’s viewpoint is condensed in the title: we should go back from McLuhan to Innis, from a framework inspired by the global-village metaphor to one based on the expansion of empire.L’auteur présente ici une lecture personnelle de la contribution aux études en communication de deux pionniers canadiens, Marshall McLuhan et Harold A. Innis. À rebours des interprétations habituelles qui en soulignent les affinités, il met en evidence leurs différences. Refusant d’emblée leur déterminisme technologique, il propose une synthèse compréhensive et critique de leurs cadres d’analyse et de leurs démarches méthodologiques, cherchant à évaluer l’influence de l’un et de l’autre dans son cheminement personnel, et à retracer les avancées et les dérives auxquelles ils ont contribué dans l’évolution de la recherche en communication. Le titre condense le point de vue de l’auteur: il faut remonter de McLuhan à Innis, passer de la grille de lecture qu’inspire la métaphore du village global à celle qu’appelle l’expansion de l’empire.

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