Cinema Canada
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Cinema Canada (1972–1989) is a defunct Canadian film magazine,
Koller continued to edit and publish the magazine, which became independent of the CSC in the fall of 1973. It was scrappy, provocative and ashamedly nationalistic. In March 1975, a non-profit organization, the Cinema Canada Foundation, was formed, and in September of that year it was transferred to Jean-Pierre Tadros and Connie Tadros, who moved the editorial office to Montreal while maintaining a Toronto office. Jean-Pierre had been the film critic for Le Devoir and editor of Cinema Quebec and had been a contributor to Cinema Canada. At first it was published 10 times a years, then it went monthly until its last issue in 1989.[2][4] In all, there were 169 issues published over the span of 18 years.
A home for Canadian nationalists and cinema activists in the 1970s, Cinema Canada became the voice for The Council of Canadian Filmmakers, a lobby group of filmmakers and industry professionals campaigning for a quota for Canadian movies in the American-owned theatres. The Toronto office became a hub for the emerging Toronto New Wave in the 1980s, and Bruce McDonald edited Cinema Canada's "Outlaw" issue in the fall of 1988. Toronto's staff included, at one time or another,
The impending GST and removal of postal subsidies in 1991 were the official reasons given when the magazine folded. The underlying truth, however, was that Cinema Canada had lost its reason for being. The production climate in Canada had changed considerably from the days in the early 1970s, and the magazine eventually lost its constituency.
Cinema Canada provides a unique and rich historical resource for scholars of Canadian cinema and the original documents and papers are held as a special collection in TIFF's Film Reference Library in Toronto.
References
- ISBN 90-420-1598-5. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ a b c "Cinema Canada". Athabasca University Library Digitization Portal. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
- ISBN 0-8020-8444-3.
- ISBN 978-1-55458-388-1. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
- ^ "A Masterwork Apocalypse Now". Cinema Canada. June 1979.
External links
- Cinema Canada is available online at http://cinemacanada.athabascau.ca