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Canadian Studies FALL 2007 PRACTICAL AND AUTHORITATIVE ANALYSIS OF KEY NATIONAL ISSUES CANADIAN STUDIES: A FUTURE? FEATURES INTRODUCTION Son of phase one by Seth Feldman, page 1 Son of phase one Canadian Studies: A victim of its own success? s many of the articles to this BY SETH FELDMAN by Colin Coates, page 1 special issue of Canada Watch A Seth Feldman is the director of the What has changed? Three decades in dedicated to Canadian Studies incor- Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies. Canadian Studies porate the personal histories of their by Janice Dickin, page 5 authors, I am afraid that I will have to When I arrived in 1975 and took Les études canadiennes à la croisée des come clean with mine. I was in the my place as a newly minted New chemins ? process of completing my doctorate Yorker/Canadian, I was in for a bit Pierre Anctil, page 8 in a rather innovative media studies of a culture shock. My knowledge “Your major is Canadian Studies? program at SUNY/Buffalo when, of Canada was largely limited to my What’s that?” much to my surprise, I was hired to field, though no small thing that. by Natalie Riggs, page 10 teach Film Studies at the University McLuhanism was in its heyday, the Canadian Studies at a small, of Western Ontario. Yes, I had to find National Film Board and the CBC undergraduate, Atlantic university: Looking to the future London, Ontario on a map. Son of phase one, page 2 by Della Stanley, page 11 The ongoing crisis of Canadian Studies by Richard Nimijean, page 14 Canadian Studies: A Has Canadian Studies had its day? by Joan Sangster, page 17 victim of its own success? The future of Canadian Studies: A Gen-Xer’s perspective CHALLENGES FACING BY COLIN COATES by Peter Hodgins, page 20 CANADIAN STUDIES Toward a recovery of social solidarity? Colin Coates is coordinator of by Ian Angus, page 22 PROGRAMS IN CANADA the Canadian Studies program at n theory, Canadian Studies should Glendon College, York University and Letters from Denmark: Thoughts on Ibe a thriving academic pursuit holds the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Studies across the country. Today, an unprec- Canadian Cultural Landscapes. by Claire Campbell, page 24 edented number of scholars focus on Too much of a good thing? The case for Canadian issues. We Canadians have economic and environmental Canadian Studies in the 21st century good reasons to be interested in the change, Canadian concerns are very by Andrew Nurse, page 26 issues we face as individuals and as much as relevant and important as Les études québécoises à l’Université du a collectivity: because of the series of they are in any other country. Québec à Trois-Rivières: un programme d’études avancées et un centre de challenges facing the country as a Yet Canadian Studies as an aca- recherche whole, ongoing concerns about demic enterprise faces difficulties. by Stéphane Castonguay, page 31 Quebec’s place in the country, the In many programs, the number of The Journal of historical inequalities experienced by students choosing to major in the Canadian Studies Aboriginal peoples, women, ethnic “multidiscipline” remains low, even then and now and racial minorities, and the differ- while demand for specific classes by Donald Wright, ently abled, and current fears about A victim of its own success?, page 3 page 33 Canada Watch is a publication of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies of York University Son of phase one continued from page 1 PRACTICAL AND AUTHORITATIVE ANALYSIS OF KEY NATIONAL ISSUES were flourishing and innovative institu- GUEST EDITOR tions, and Canada was known interna- Many a Canadian Colin Coates, Canadian Studies Program, tionally in that small circle of experimen- Glendon College, York University tal film and video of which I was a part. film and filmmaker During my five years in Buffalo, we be- has been grossly MANAGING EDITOR came familiar with the CBC and often Laura Taman visited Toronto to see films, videos, and overvalued in an the many other cultural artifacts not avail- COLUMNISTS THIS ISSUE able where we lived. We also suffered effort to build a Seth Feldman Colin Coates from chief executive envy—Nixon vs. Janice Dickin Pierre Anctil Trudeau—and with the Vietnam War still national self-esteem. Natalie Riggs Della Stanley beckoning, a quick dash to the Peace Richard Nimijean Joan Sangster Bridge was always a possibility. Peter Hodgins Ian Angus newly arrived Americans and Brits) or- Claire Campbell Andrew Nurse CANADIAN CONTENT? ganized the Film Studies Association of Stéphane Castonguay Donald Wright It was only when I arrived at Western that Canada, in part to generate a demand PRODUCTION I discovered a side to Canada that I could that might get some films into distribu- WordsWorth Communications not have imagined. My new employers tion. soon made it clear that they were less The last piece of the puzzle was the CONTACT FOR INFORMATION interested in Canadian film and Canada’s students. It seemed a safe assumption, Canada Watch contribution to the new media age than in the Canada of Pierre Trudeau and the 227 York Lanes, 4700 Keele St. they were in my contribution to the de- post-PQ national unity crusade, that Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 partmental enrolment count with large students would swarm Canadian Cine- Phone (416) 736-5499 Hollywood cinema classes. Surely, I ma. They didn’t. Enrolments were small Fax (416) 736-5739 thought, the lack of a Canadian Cinema and those students who did enrol grew www.robarts.yorku.ca course was an unfortunate oversight. impatient with the quality of the films. For information regarding future issues, When I proposed designing and teaching They discovered to their horror that the contact Laura Taman, Project Manager, such a course, the curriculum committee feature films didn’t have the production Robarts Centre. Please address comments to Seth Feldman, Director, Roberts Centre. wanted to see a list of critical literature values or big name talent of Hollywood that would support such a field. There features. Their comments on the course Canada Watch is produced by was very little. So Joyce Nelson at Queen’s implied that we were being malicious the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and I, with the energetic support of Peter holding back a parallel universe of film of York University. Medjuk at the University of Toronto, com- achievement when, in reality, Canada’s Copyright © 2007 piled an anthology and found a small feature film industry was, at that time, The Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies publishing house willing to print it. only about a decade old. Its productions Printed in Canada ISSN 1191-7733 “And where will you get the films to were under-budgeted and the true talents show?” the curriculum committee asked; of the day were still honing their skills. another good question. In addition to the Students did admit that the anima- National Film Board’s rich and univer- tions were funny—for five or ten minutes. In the years that followed, I have par- sally admired collection of documentary But who cared about documentary? They ticipated in the argument for Canada’s and animation, there were a small num- had seen enough of that in high school. importance, hoping all the while for a ber of titles available from the experimen- And experimental film, despite our best methodology that avoided the American tal film co-ops and a thin blue catalogue efforts, was a taste that most students hubris, allowing Canada to judge itself from the Canadian Film Institute that lacked the patience to acquire. by its own standards. I’m not sure how contained most of Canada’s surviving successful that has been. Much of what cinema heritage (our national film ar- CANADA IN THE SHADOW OF I have experienced as Canadian Studies chive having burned to the ground in THE UNITED STATES has been grounded in American-style 1967). Few distributors of Canadian fea- For a recently arrived immigrant from identity politics as it was practised in the tures bothered releasing prints for class- the self-proclaimed centre of the uni- 1960s and 1970s. Many a Canadian film room use. In 1976, a dozen or so of us verse, this willingness to dismiss one’s and filmmaker has been grossly over- (an embarrassing number of whom were own culture was culture shock indeed. valued in an effort to build a national 2 CANADA WATCh • FALL 2007 self-esteem. Perhaps too much time has been wasted in the struggle against the I am certain that, ten years from now, oppressor (something else the Ameri- Sesquicentennial Canada will celebrate cans supplied). Or perhaps it is only in Canadian Cinema that it has taken so an imagined community that Centennial long to arrive at the point where we may dismiss some of our work as unworthy Canada could barely imagine. Whether that and a few well-intentioned policies as really bad ideas. community is a true post-modern nation or a Still, the end hasn’t done badly in justifying the means. Canadian Cinema hollowed-out brand will have to be settled by now has that rich critical literature once a very different generation in such short supply. From time to time, we catch the notice of the world’s top thinkers in our field. And for good rea- Canada could barely imagine. Whether The contributors to this issue of son. It would now be simple to program that community is a true post-modern Canada Watch are a cross-section of any Canadian Cinema course with fea- nation or a hollowed-out brand will have scholars from the early, middle, and later ture films that have won prestigious to be settled by a very different genera- moments of Phase One Canadian Stud- prizes at international festivals—not that tion—a generation shaped by the emer- ies.
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