I actually included some speculation on the nature of how families in American sitcoms are unrealistically close and how it probably relates to the fact that given the large landmass that the US covers it probably reflects fears of drifting apart seeing as family is likely to be spread all over the country, or even world seeing as so many people emigrate to America in a media essay. Yeah, distance is certainly something that should be covered, thanks!
I've also noticed- well, with British cinema (Deathly Hallows being a notable exception) generally speaking the action is confined to a handful of sets generally all within a mile or so of each other within the geography of the story told in the movie, whereas America has this culture of roadtrip movies and stories, with a lot of them getting tied into the coming of age tale or acceptance. So yeah, definitely a cultural diff in the texts there.
Hm. This sounds really interesting! If I were being facetious I would comment to the effect of "I'd love to help but I'm not American so it's not the saaaaame" but that is just because (IMO) a lot of the Canadian identity basically boils down to "Not America!" which I suppose is a side effect of salad bowl culture thing.
Really, I just. Don't know that I can think of anything. But it does sound interesting!
That is interesting. I've noticed that Scott, our prof, tends to define his 'Americanness' in binary opposition to our 'Britishness' (ex today he found the board eraser that he'd been looking for all of last lecture and found out that we'd known where it was, we just hadn't mentioned it and he went "see, British people don't tell you things. Americans tell you everything, British people don't") and the difference between. idk, I find that whole 'not America' thing quite interesting. I remember reading an article deconstructing the relationship between Scott Pilgrim and Canadian identity versus American identity somewhere too.
Talking about the identity of two countries I'm not a part of seems a little awk though. Here, anyway.
I'll find some way to fit 'Canadians are awesome' into the essay, just for you.
i think you are hitting the nail on the head with the distance and tales of acceptance themes. we like those. other themes i can think of that we like
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I've also noticed- well, with British cinema (Deathly Hallows being a notable exception) generally speaking the action is confined to a handful of sets generally all within a mile or so of each other within the geography of the story told in the movie, whereas America has this culture of roadtrip movies and stories, with a lot of them getting tied into the coming of age tale or acceptance. So yeah, definitely a cultural diff in the texts there.
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Really, I just. Don't know that I can think of anything. But it does sound interesting!
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Talking about the identity of two countries I'm not a part of seems a little awk though. Here, anyway.
I'll find some way to fit 'Canadians are awesome' into the essay, just for you.
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