文摘
The past three decades have witnessed
a very marked convergence between cultural activities and economic development.
Cultural economy is a new form of capitalism emerging in regions where
traditional manufacturing industries are no longer reliable sources of economic
dynamism. Culture is regarded as a means to achieve economic growth; and
cultural development is often seen in the promotion of tourism and cultural
industries, such as the film industry. In the early 1950s, confronting the mass
influx of American cultural goods and services, the Canadian government
formulated inward-looking cultural policies to protect burgeoning Canadian
cultural markets and cultural producers. Within this context, the Canadian film
and video policies were launched. In Canada, there were three major approaches
applied to invent and strengthen motion picture industries and communities: the
patronage approach, the production-oriented industrial approach, and the
community approach.;This study examines the community approach in the Halifax
motion picture ecosystem, which exhibits the inter-dependency and relationships
between human groups' cultural-economic activities and the surrounding
socio-economic environment.