Canadian Television: Text and Context

Canadian Television: Text and Context
ISBN-10
1554583888
ISBN-13
9781554583881
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
238
Language
English
Published
2012-06-01
Publisher
Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Authors
Scott Henderson, Marian Bredin, Sarah A. Matheson

Description

Canadian Television: Text and Context 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. The book surveys the commercial and technological imperatives of the Canadian television industry, the shifting role of the CBC as Canada’s public broadcaster, the dynamics of Canada’s multicultural and multiracial audiences, and the function of television’s “star system.” Foreword by The Globe and Mail’s television critic, John Doyle.

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