Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction: Media History as Concept and Practice 1
6. Part One: New Research In Canadian Media History
7. 1. The Catholic Press: A Challenge to the ‘Journalism of Information’ Paradigm 27
8. 2. Old Media, New Media, and Competition: Canadian Press and the Emergence of Radio News 47
9. 3. Britishness, The BBC, and the Birth of Canadian Public Broadcasting, 1928–1936 78
10. 4. ‘The Luxury of Moderate Use’: Seagram and Moderation Advertising, 1934–1955 109
11. 5. Evelyn Dick, Soap Star: Newspaper Coverage of the Torso Murder Case, 1946–1947 140
12. 6. Variety Show as National Identity: CBC Television and Dominion Day Celebrations, 1958–1980 168
13. 7. Politics? Fear Not! The Rise of The Average Superhero in the Visual Rhetoric of Bill Davis’s 1971 Election Pamphlet 194
14. Part Two: Historiography And Media History
15. 8. Whence and Whither: The Historiography of Canadian Broadcasting 235
16. 9. Recent Trends in Research on the History of the Press in Quebec: Towards a Cultural History 259
17. 10. Encounters with Theory 273
18. Bibliography 299
19. Contributors 329