North of Nowhere?: The Signifigance of Canadian Cultural Identity in Genre Films Produced During the "Tax Shelter Years"

North of Nowhere?: Cultural Identity in Genre Films Produced During the "Tax Shelter Years" More than twenty years after its original release, a puerile high school sex comedy remains the highest grossing Canadian film of all time. If you ask many of those who made it such a financial success, they probably had no idea that was a Canadian film. In "Porky's" none of the characters are Canadian, in fact, the film is set in …

…the "Hollywood" system, it is the idea of balance, it is important to have something for everyone. They say the greatest way to prove a classic is through the test of time, and it is probably fairly likely that in fifty years, "Porky's" will be more fondly remembered then the majority of critically acclaimed Canadian films from the last ten years. 1.<Tab/>Lind, Laura 2.<Tab/>Leach, Jim.