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Canadian Television : Text and Context / Marian Bredin, Scott Henderson, and Sarah A. Matheson, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Film and media studies series.
- Film and media studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television--Social aspects.
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects.
- Television broadcasting.
- Television.
- National characteristics, Canadian.
- Television--Social aspects--Canada.
- Television--Canada.
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects--Canada.
- Television broadcasting--Canada.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011, c2012
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. This book surveys the commercial and technological imperatives of the Canadian television industry, the role of the CBC as Canada's public broadcaster, and the function of television's "star system".
- Contents:
- Foreword : One thing about television and ten things about Canadian TV / John Doyle
- From kine to hi-def : a personal view of television studies in Canada / Mary Jane Miller
- (Who knows?) What remains to be seen : archives, access, and other practical problems for the study of Canadian "national" television / Jennifer VanderBurgh
- Television, film and the Canadian star system / Liz Czach
- Producing aboriginal television in Canada : obstacles and opportunities / Marian Bredin
- Hypercommercialism and Canadian children's television : the case of YTV / Kyle Asquith
- Canadianizing Canadians : television, youth, identity / Michele Byers
- How even American reality TV can perform a public service on Canadian television / Derek S. Foster
- Television, nation, and the situation comedy in Canada : cultural diversity and Little mosque on the prairie / Sarah A. Matheson
- "Come on Eileen" : making Shania Canadian again / Scott Henderson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781299313064
- 129931306X
- 9781554583881
- 1554583888
- OCLC:
- 741399601
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