For fifty-seven years the National Film Board of Canada
(NFB) has been interpreting Canada to Canadians through
documentary films which have simultaneously reflected and
shaped the identity of this country and its peoples. This
study is concerned with the NFB's documentary film portrayal
of Native Canadians. Over the half century that the NFB has
been making films about Canada's indigenous peoples their
portrayal has undergone much change. Comparisons are made in
this study between three of the earliest examples and three
of the most recent examples of such films, with regard to
attitude, voice, and technique. The effect these choices
have upon representation is also discussed.
Changes in technical, artistic, and philosophical
aspects of the documentary film genre have also had a
significant effect upon representation of Native peoples
over the past fifty years, and are considered as well.
Educationally, the study considers issues of
manipulation of knowledge and hidden curricula. Playing an
increasingly important role in education today, the media is
a powerful tool both for teaching and for the inculcation of
social norms. Suggestions are made as to ways in which this
medium can best be used in the classroom.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/4472 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Wilkie, Tanis Eleanor |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
Page generated in 0.0018 seconds