Rebellion in Canadian Cinema

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This paper argues that Canadian films such as "Goin' Down the Road"(1970), directed by Donald Shebib and "Nobody Waved Goodbye"(1964), directed by Donald Owen, ultimately suggest that Canada has not yet found its solution to the problems of societal rebellion and tension and neither adolescents nor adults can articulate an ideology of meaningful resistance.

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" The film's jerky camera motions, overlapping dialogue, and clumsy scene splicing highlights this unfinished nature as well. Peter is an unfinished person, isolated even from other people his own age, and the only coherent windows on his life are provided by the jumps and jerks of the confined black-and-white cinematic lens. Unlike the delinquents of America who gleefully flee to the open road with a sense of possibility, to Peter the nation of Canada is so vast, so isolate and rural, that he feels he has nowhere to go within its borders, even when he is driving in a (stolen) car. "

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