Discuss the evolution of film policy from the National Film Board Act of 1939,
through the Canadian Co-operation Project, tax shelter years and including the
formation of federal and provincial funding agencies in Canada. How has the
tension between often antithetical understanding of cinema as a public good with
a pedagogic or cultural purpose and cinema as an industry shaped the evolution of these policies? Outline the particular and unique role of the federal government (in particular) in creating the conditions for the survival of Canadian cinema.
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