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Programming reality : perspectives on English-Canadian television Cover Image Book Book

Programming reality : perspectives on English-Canadian television / Zoe Druick and Aspa Kotsopoulos, editors.

Druick, Zoe. (Added Author). Kotsopoulos, Aspa, 1966- (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9781554580101 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: ix, 341 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2008.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction / Zoe Druick and Aspa Kotsopoulos -- Pt. 1. Narrating Nation -- Reenacting Canada: The Nation-State as an Object of Desire in the Early Years of Canadian Broadcasting / David Hogarth -- Representing National History on Television: The Case of Canada: A People's History / Lyle Dick -- Canadian Idols? CBC's The Greatest Canadian as Celebrity History / Julie Rak -- Canadian Idol and the Myth of National Identity / Michele Byers -- Hockey Dreams: Making the Cut / Derek Foster -- Laughing at Authority or Authorized Laughter? Canadian News Parodies / Zoe Druick -- Whose Child Am I? The Quebec Referendum and Languages of Affect and the Body / Marusya Bociurkiw --
Pt. 2. Making Citizens -- Public Broadcasting/National Television: CBC and the Challenges of Historical Miniseries / Aspa Kotsopoulos -- History as Edutainment: Heritage Minutes and the Uses of Educational Television / Katarzyna Rukszto -- Education and Entertainment: The Many Reals of Degrassi / Michele Byers -- Haunting Public Discourse: The Representation of Residential Schools in CBC Television Drama / Mary Jane Miller --
Pt. 3. Mapping Geographies -- Representations of Urban Conflict in Moccasin Flats / John McCullough -- Da Vinci's Inquest: Postmortem / Glen Lowry -- Imagining National Citizens in Televised Toronto / Jen VanderBurgh -- Realism and Community in the Canadian Soap Opera: The Case of Train 48 / Sarah A. Matheson -- Human Cargo: Bridging the Geopolitical Divide at Home in Canada / Kirsten Emiko McAllister.

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