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  • <i>Relationship between the location of the action in the movie Ararat, Atom Egoyan.</i><br>Taken in a national context, a movie doesn't show just the gaze of its director on space and society, but much more about how a society perceives and considers its relations to space.
  • <i>Spatial distribution of movie theaters in Western Canada.</i><br>This research represents the first stage of a project aimed at better understanding of Canadian cinema geography, including through the spatial analysis of its distribution system.
  • <i>Scene from the movie Bon Cop Bad Cop @ Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm</i><br>The vast majority of Québec cinema takes place in downtown Montreal, which consequently becomes a strong cultural and identity symbol.
  • <i>Colossus movie theater, Laval (QC). Photographer: rivest266 (http://cinematreasures.org)</i><br>In 2007, there were 41 megaplexes in Canada, of which 18 in Quebec, 12 in Ontario and five in Alberta.
  • <i>Scene from the movie Atanarjuat @ Rezo Films</i><br>Only the cinema of First Nations focuses on Nordic spaces, that it finally reclaims after having been largely displaced by the 20th century Canadian film productions.
  • <i>Beaubien movie theater, Montréal, QC. Photographer: rivest266 (http://cinematreasures.org)</i><br>Going to the movies is part of a set of practices and experiences involved in neighborhood life.
  • <i>Spatial distribution of movie theaters in the Toronto area.</i><br>The three major Canadian census metropolitan areas (CMAs) - Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver - accounted for 52.5% of movie theaters' revenues of all CMAs in 2001, while accounting to 52.3% of the population of these CMAs.
  • <i>Globe movie theater, Calgary, AB. Photographer: odeon (http://cinematreasures.org)</i><br>In urban centers, the situation is much more nuanced: the marketis shared by small independent theaters and megaplex chains.
  • <i>Hope movie theater, Hope, BC. Photographer: KevinLarson (http://cinematreasures.org)</i><br>57% of Canadian movie theaters are still operated by independent owners, but they represent only a tiny part of the screens (22%) because these movie theaters are generally smaller in size.
  • <i>Des Sources 10 movie theater, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, QC. Photographer: rivest266 (http://cinematreasures.org)</i><br>Movie theaters chains can be classified into three categories, of which local chains, which are located in a specific urban area, as Guzzo.
  • <i>Scene from the movie Un dimanche à Kigali @ Equinoxe Films</i><br>Canadian cinema does not speak about Africa, only about the Rwandan genocide.
  • <i>Spatial distribution of accessibility to movie theaters, in the Winnipeg area.</i><br>In Calgary, Winnipeg and Ottawa, it is mainly urban centers that are over-served (respectively 46, 58 and 50 screens are available).
  • <i>Scene from the movie Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity @ Film Movement</i><br>While Vancouver is often considered an ideal place for film production, its presence as such in the Canadian movies is extremely marginal.
  • <i>Eglinton movie theater, Toronto, CA. Photographer: kingswaytheatre (http://cinematreasures.org)</i><br>It is this duality of movie theater, both vector of industrial diffusion to a national and even global scale, and a structuring element of socio-economic activity across the district and the community, which we are proposing to study.
  • <i>Scene from the movie Partition @ Seville Pictures</i><br>Some films easily switch from the city to the countryside, as such, the movie Partition cleverly navigates between urban India and rural Pakistan.
  • <i>Champlain movie theater, Mattawa, ON. Photographer: socal09 (http://cinematreasures.org)</i><br>At a much smaller scale local movie theater is also a specific geographic location, halfway between public and private sphere, in which notions of space and time are continuously reviewed and redefined.
  • <i>Scene from the movie Maman est chez le coiffeur @ Equinoxe Films</i><br>This research aims to define the spaces that emerge through stories of contemporary Canadian cinema, in order to better understand the relationships between these various cinematographic territories and Canadian cultures and identities.

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