Canadian Television
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Marian Bredin
About this book
Canadian Television: Text and Context explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. Each chapter connects arguments about particular texts of Canadian television to critical analysis of the wider cultural, social, and economic contexts in which they are created. The book surveys the commercial and technological imperatives of the Canadian television industry, the shifting role of the CBC as Canada’s public broadcaster, the dynamics of Canada’s multicultural and multiracial audiences, and the function of television’s “star system.” Foreword by The Globe and Mail’s television critic, John Doyle.
Author / Editor information
Marian Bredin is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, and the MA Program in Popular Culture at Brock University.
--- Contributor: Scott HendersonScott Henderson is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, and the MA Program in Popular Culture at Brock University.
--- Contributor: Sarah A. MathesonSarah A. Matheson is an associate professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film, and the MA Program in Popular Culture at Brock University.
Reviews
“The compelling and wide-ranging essays in this collection attest to the strength of television studies in Canada even—or especially—at a moment when both the nation and the medium of television have become destabilized critical categories. A welcome addition to the field of media studies in Canada.”
“While the digital age transforms all media and globalization erodes national boundaries, television and its domestic contexts are still perceived as serving some form of national interest. Canadian Television: Text and Context celebrates English-Canadian television within this nexus of concerns, asking how our TV texts and the issues they raise provide Canadians with a ‘collective working through’ of our shared realities. Crossing disciplines and genres in rich explorations of forms and practices, this impressive collection signals loud and clear the depth and diversity with which Canadian television studies has arrived.”
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Front Matter
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Contents
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One Thing about Television and Ten Things about Canadian TV
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Introduction
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From Kine to Hi-Def: A Personal View of Television Studies in Canada
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(Who Knows?) What Remains to Be Seen: Archives, Access, and Other Practical Problems for the Study of Canadian “National” Television
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Television, Film, and the Canadian Star System
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Producing Aboriginal Television in Canada
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Hypercommercialism and Canadian Children’s Television
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Canadianizing Canadians
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How Even American Reality TV Can Perform a Public Service on Canadian Television
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Television, Nation, and the Situation Comedy in Canada
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“Come On Eileen”
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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