Canadian Television

Text and Context
Herausgeber: Bredin, Marian; Matheson, Sarah A; Henderson, Scott

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781554583614
• ISBN-10: 1554583616
• Artikelnr.: 33813780

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Canadian Television: Text and Context, edited by Marian Bredin, Scott
Henderson, and Sarah A. Matheson
Foreword: One Thing about Television and Ten Things about Canadian TV
John Doyle (The Globe and Mail)
Part I: Television Studies in the Canadian Context: Challenges and New
Directions
Introduction Marian Bredin, Scott Henderson, and Sarah A. Matheson
1. From Kine to Hi-Def: A Personal View of Television Studies in Canada
Mary Jane Miller
2. (Who Knows?) What Remains to Be Seen: Archives, Access, and Other
Practical Problems for the Study of Canadian "National" Television
Jennifer VanderBurgh
Part II: Context of Television Production in Canada
3. Television, Film, and the Canadian Star System Liz Czach
4. Producing Aboriginal Television in Canada: Obstacles and Opportunities
Marian Bredin
5. Hypercommercialism and Canadian Children's Television: The Case of YTV
Kyle Asquith
Part III: Contexts of Criticism: Genre, Narrative, and Form
6. Canadianizing Canadians: Television, Youth, Identity Michele Byers
7. How Even American Reality TV Can Perform a Public Service on Canadian
Television Derek S. Foster
8. Television, Nation, and Situation Comedy in Canada: Cultural Diversity
and Little Mosque on the Prairie Sarah A. Matheson
9. "Come On Eileen": Making Shania Canadian Again Scott Henderson
Bibligraphy
Contributors
Contributors' Bios
Kyle Asquith is a lecturer and PhD candidate in the Media Studies program
at the University of Western Ontario. His research and teaching interests
broadly encompass the complementary fields of advertising and consumer
culture, media history, and the political economy of communication.
Marian Bredin is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication,
Popular Culture and Film, and former director of the Centre for Canadian
Studies at Brock University. Along with her participation in the Popular
Culture Niagara Research Group, her main research interests include
Aboriginal media, communications policy, and Canadian television. Most
recently she co-edited Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada for the
University of Manitoba Press in 2010.
Michele Byers is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and
Criminology at Saint Mary's University. She is editor or co-editor of four
books on television, and her work on television text, identity, and the
archive has appeared in a broad range of journals and edited collections.
She has held several SSHRC grants for the study of Canadian television, the
most recent of which focuses on Canadian television and ethnicity.
Liz Czach is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Film
Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research interests include home
movies, film festivals, and Canadian film. Her articles and reviews have
appeared in numerous journals including The Moving Image, Cinema Journal,
and Journal of Canadian Studies. She has contributed to the books La Casa
Abierta: El cine domestico y sus reciclajes contemporaneos (2010) and
Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of
Canada (2010). She was a film programmer at the Toronto International Film
Festival from 1995 to 2005 and currently organizes Edmonton's Home Movie
Day.
John Doyle has been television critic at The Globe and Mail since 2000 and
was the critic for Broadcast Week, the Globe's television magazine, from
1995 to 2000. His book A Great Feast of Light: Growing Up Irish in the
Television Age was published to acclaim in Canada, the United States,
Britain, Ireland, and Australia in 2005. His second book, The World Is a
Ball: The Joy, Madness and Meaning of Soccer (2010), was also a national
bestseller in Canada and has been published in the United States, Britain,
Ireland, and Croatia.
Derek S. Foster is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. His research
consistently focuses on visual rhetoric in the public sphere and "mining
the gap" between mass communication and speech communication. To this end,
he has written numerous publications studying discourses of reality
television and the rhetoric surrounding other forms of visual and material
culture. His current research combines these foci in examining
television-based memorials and commemorative exercises.
Scott Henderson is an Associate Professor in the Department of
Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. He received
his MA and PhD in Film Studies from the University of East Anglia. His
research focuses on issues of identity and representation in popular
culture. He has published on diverse subject matter, including YouTube and
youth identity, gay and lesbian film, British cinema, Canadian cinema and
popular culture, and Canadian radio policy.
Sarah A. Matheson is Associate Professor in the Department of
Communication, Popular Culture and Film and the M.A. in Popular Culture at
Brock University. Her main areas of research and teaching are film and
popular culture with a special focus on Canadian television studies. Her
recent work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and Film
and History and in the anthologies Programming Reality: Perspectives on
English-Canadian Television and The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV and History
.
Mary Jane Miller is retired professor (Emerita) of the Department of
Dramatic Arts, Brock University. She has taught television and Canadian
television drama and Canadian dramatic literature, publishing articles on
both topics. Her books include: Turn Up the Contrast: Canadian Television
Drama since 1952 (UBC Press/CBC, 1987); Rewind and Search: Conversations
with Makers and Decision Makers of CBC Television Drama (McGill-Queen's
University Press, 1996); and Outside Looking In: Viewing First Nations
People in Canadian Dramatic Television Series ( McGill-Queen's University
Press, 2008).
Jennifer VanderBurgh is Assistant Professor (Film and Media Studies) in the
Department of English at Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia. Her
writing on a diverse range of texts-from Videodrome to Don Messer's Jubilee
-has appeared in various journals and edited collections. She is currently
writing a book on archives and footprints of television in Toronto and
recently coedited an issue of PUBLIC: Art/Culture/Ideas on Screens.