Canadian Television

Canadian Television
Author: Marian Bredin
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1554583896

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.

Encyclopedia of Television

Encyclopedia of Television
Author: Horace Newcomb
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 2730
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135194726

The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.

Kids' Media Culture

Kids' Media Culture
Author: Marsha Kinder
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1999
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780822323716

A collection of feminist cultural studies essays on children's television.

The World of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

The World of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
Author: Mark J P Wolf
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2017-09-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351615017

Unlike many children’s television shows, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood did more than simply entertain or occupy children’s attention. The show educated them in the affective domain, encouraging such things as appreciation for difference, collaboration, self-expression, and self-worth. It also introduced them to the areas of culture, art, and music through guests, trips, art objects and processes, and demonstrations, making it accessible and meaningful in a way that a child could understand. While the educational content of children’s television programming has improved greatly since the late 1960s, no other children’s program has ever attempted such a mix of high art, low art, folk art, industrial production, learning in the affective and social domains, and more, all with a whimsical sense of humor, insight, and a level of interconnected detail unmatched by any other children’s television program. This book illuminates and examines the world of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood through world design, narrative, genre, form, content, authorship, reception and more.

Canada - An American Nation?

Canada - An American Nation?
Author: Allan Smith
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 406
Release: 1994
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 0773512292

A compilation of Smith's (history, U. of British Columbia) essays on the influence of American society on Canadian identity. Based on the notion that Canada can best be understood if viewed in relation to the US, Smith explores the ways in which American influences have challenged Canada's cultural

Just Mary

Just Mary
Author: Margaret Anne Hume
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2006-02-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 155002597X

An examination of the life of Mary Grannan, whose radio shows, including Just Mary and Maggie Muggins, shaped the legacy of childrens programming on CBC.

Outside Looking in

Outside Looking in
Author: Mary Jane Miller
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2008
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0773574875

Using recent scholarship in ethnography and popular culture, Miller throws light on both what these series present and what is missing, how various long-standing issues are raised and framed differently over time, and what new issues appear. She looks at narrative arc, characterization, dialogue, and theme as well as how inflections of familiar genres like family adventure, soap opera, situation comedy, and legal drama shape both the series and viewers' expectations. Miller discusses Radisson, Forest Rangers and other children's series in the 1960s and early 1970s, as well as Beachcombers, Spirit Bay, The Rez, and North of 60 - series whose complex characters created rewarding relationships while dealing with issues ranging from addiction to unemployment to the aftermath of the residential school system.