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Article: Toronto workers' art in Global Hollywood.(Toronto, Canada)
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- March 22, 2009
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Off camera group art show at Filmport Studios, 225 Commissioners St., Toronto October 3-18 The pieces in the show are viewable at: offcameraatfilmport2008.blogspot.com
Hollywood has long had an awkward relationship to art. Often considered more a communication technology than a fine art, filmmaking (and especially Hollywood filmmaking), has regularly been judged aesthetically impoverished and not really art by traditional standards that measure aesthetic achievement in direct relation to autonomy, originality, and authenticity. By contrast, Hollywood has distinguished itself by playing not to elite audiences but to mass taste with entertainment spectacles that ...