IMAX in canadian cinema: geographic transformation and discourses of nationhood

... the last post-industrial resource, acceleration exceeds accumulation . . . Paul Virilio (1987, 180)

The guiding myth, then, inspiring the invention of cinema, is ... an integral realism, a recreation of the world in its own image, and image unburdened by the freedom of interpretation of the artist or the irreversibility of time . . . Every new development added to the cinema must, paradoxically, take it nearer and nearer to its origins. In short, cinema has not yet been invented!

Andre Bazin (1967, 21)

It's the ultimate in screen realism, and yet in many ways it's much better than being there.

Julian Temple, director of Rolling Stones At the Max (1991) (Gentry 1992,40).