Of course, I agree with what you say here completely Alison; it's the same
here:
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>It's an argument with a bomb in the middle, though - for example, the
>government considers we have a healthy film industry as long as it's
>making money, which it does, since Australia has a lot of excellent
>film technicians. The fact that we become effectively a branch of
>Hollywood (not that I've got anything against The Matrix) and that
>local films get fewer and harder to make is a totally secondary
>consideration; and also, that these technicians are so good because
>they've had an indigenous film industry in which to work and learn is
>not taken into consideration. Most of the legislation once in place
>to protect the local culture has been basically removed as
>anti-competitive (this is a complaint everywhere). And the same in
>theatre - the companies which are doing new or interesting work are
>the ones which either have to do less work or close altogether, since
>the only measure of quality becomes the quantity of audience; and
>that makes everyone, even the mainstream companies which are
>basically doing whatever's on in London and New York, the poorer,
>because they too need a rich soil to grow from, even if they don't
>realise that. It's an endemic and complex problem though, not just
>to do with funding bodies, which are usually in the difficult
>position of distributing less and less money while having to
>implement government policy.
doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
he said the President said
he would not kill anyone
anymore and the way he would not kill
would be to let the killers kill
and then he would not be a killer
Eli Mandel (circa 1970)
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