The Lost Art of Being Canadian (Part 2)

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Administrator

Okay…so last time I was revisiting a familiar pet peeve of mine, about the way certain Canadian storytellers tend to pretend their stories (settings, characters) aren’t Canadian…or present Canada in a rather dismissive, even contemptuous way. But that was really just a pre-amble to looking at the notion of whether, after years of this being in many ways the dominant creative vision in much of Canadian film and TV, it’s reached a point where even when Canadian movies and TV shows freely, happily admit they are Canadian…they

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One Response to The Lost Art of Being Canadian (Part 2)

  1. crispin237 says:
    November 17, 2011 at 12:58 pm

    Your Listener comments are nitpicking. You yourself mention the reasons they might have done them from a plot perspective. But your comments about the in-production series are a little more on-target. And does suggest television makers not entirely familiar with their own country!