ISBN:
129931306X
,
9781554583881
,
9781299313064
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 220 p)
Series Statement:
Film and media studies series
Series Statement:
Film and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Canadian Television : Text and Context
DDC:
302.23/450971
Keywords:
Television broadcasting
;
Television broadcasting Social aspects
;
National characteristics, Canadian
;
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Canada
;
Television broadcasting -- Canada
;
Electronic books
;
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Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword: One Thing about Television and Ten Things about Canadian TV -- Part I: Television Studies in the Canadian Context: Challenges and New Directions -- Introduction -- 1 From Kine to Hi-Def: A Personal View of Television Studies in Canada -- 2 (Who Knows?) What Remains to Be Seen: Archives, Access, and Other Practical Problems for the Study of Canadian "National" Television -- Part II: Contexts of Television Production in Canada -- 3 Television, Film, and the Canadian Star System -- 4 Producing Aboriginal Television in Canada: Obstacles and Opportunities -- 5 Hypercommercialism and Canadian Children's Television: The Case of YTV -- Part III: Contexts of Criticism: Genre, Narrative, and Form -- 6 Canadianizing Canadians: Television, Youth, Identity -- 7 How Even American Reality TV Can Perform a Public Service on Canadian Television -- 8 Television, Nation, and the Situation Comedy in Canada: Cultural Diversity and Little Mosque on the Prairie -- 9 "Come On Eileen": Making Shania Canadian Again -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword: One Thing about Television and Ten Things about Canadian TV""; ""Part I: Television Studies in the Canadian Context: Challenges and New Directions""; ""Introduction""; ""1 From Kine to Hi-Def: A Personal View of Television Studies in Canada""; ""2 (Who Knows?) What Remains to Be Seen: Archives, Access, and Other Practical Problems for the Study of Canadian “National� Television""; ""Part II: Contexts of Television Production in Canada""; ""3 Television, Film, and the Canadian Star System""
Description / Table of Contents:
""4 Producing Aboriginal Television in Canada: Obstacles and Opportunities""""5 Hypercommercialism and Canadian Children�s Television: The Case of YTV""; ""Part III: Contexts of Criticism: Genre, Narrative, and Form""; ""6 Canadianizing Canadians: Television, Youth, Identity""; ""7 How Even American Reality TV Can Perform a Public Service on Canadian Television""; ""8 Television, Nation, and the Situation Comedy in Canada: Cultural Diversity and Little Mosque on the Prairie""; ""9 “Come On Eileen�: Making Shania Canadian Again""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""
Description / Table of Contents:
""B""""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-207) and index
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