8 Television, Nation, and the Situation Comedy in Canada

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. One Thing about Television and Ten Things about Canadian TV vii
4. Television Studies in the Canadian Context
5. Introduction 3
6. From Kine to Hi-Def: A Personal View of Television Studies in Canada 21
7. (Who Knows?) What Remains to Be Seen: Archives, Access, and Other Practical Problems for the Study of Canadian “National” Television 39
8. Contexts of Television Production in Canada
9. Television, Film, and the Canadian Star System 61
10. Producing Aboriginal Television in Canada 73
11. Hypercommercialism and Canadian Children’s Television 95
12. Contexts of Criticism
13. Canadianizing Canadians 115
14. How Even American Reality TV Can Perform a Public Service on Canadian Television 135
15. Television, Nation, and the Situation Comedy in Canada 153
16. “Come On Eileen” 173
17. Bibliography 191
18. Contributors 209
19. Index 213
20. Books in the Film+Media Studies Series 222