Turn Up the Contrast
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Mary Jane Miller
About this book
From Shakespeare to cop shows, sitcoms to docudramas, for over three decades the CBC has presented viewers with every variety of television drama and has become Canada’s closest equivalent to a national theatre. Turn Up the Contrast is the first book to explore the content of Canadian television drama and is both a critical analysis and a survey history of how Canadians have used the medium to tell themselves their own stories.
As a part of her research, Mary Jane Miller watched thousands of hours of television, sampling series and viewing in their entirety shorter programs such as movies and mini-series. Asking a variety of questions, she selected a number of programs for detailed analysis, and devotees of The Beachcombers, King of Kensington, Seeing Things, Cariboo Country, Wojeck or A Gift to Last will be pleased to find their favourites among those discussed at length.
A University of British Columbia Press / CBC Enterprises Co-Publication.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
vii - Introduction
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The Flowering of CBC Drama
3 - Genres
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Copshows and Mysteries
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Family Adventure
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Sitcoms and Domestic Comedy
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Other Series and Miniseries
156 - The CBC (Proudly) Presents
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Anthology: TO 1968
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Anthology: 1968 to the Present
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Docudrama
256 - The Peripheral is Central
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Experimental
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Regional
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Wrapup
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The Harvest
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Appendix A
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Appendix B
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Appendix C
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Bibliography
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Index
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