ISBN:
9781554580101
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 341 p)
,
ill., ports
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Saint-Lazare, Quebec Gibson Library Connections 2009 Canadian electronic library. Canadian publishers collection Electronic document; Available by subscription via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Film and media studies series
Parallel Title:
Print version Programming Reality : Perspectives on English-Canadian Television
DDC:
302.23/450971
Keywords:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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Television broadcasting
;
Television broadcasting Social aspects
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Television broadcasting policy
;
Television programs
;
Canada Cultural policy
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"Programming Reality is a collection of original essays that explore the television programs that have thrived in the Canadian regulatory and cultural context - the programs that straddle, and even blur, the border between reality and fiction. The interdisciplinary articles in Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television - the first anthology dedicated exclusively to the analysis of Canadian television content - combine textual analysis with that of the political economy of media communications."--Jacket
Abstract:
Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television, the first anthology dedicated to analyses of Canadian television content, is a collection of original, interdisciplinary articles, combining textual analysis and political economy of communications. It explores the television that has thrived in the Canadian regulatory and cultural context: namely, programs that straddle the border between reality and fiction or even blur it. The conceptual basis of this collection is the hybrid nature of television fare: the widely theorized notion that all mediations of reality involve ficti
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Narrating Nation; Part Two: Making Citizens; Part Three: Mapping Geographies; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic document; Available by subscription via World Wide Web
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