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Imprint:	Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2012] ©2012
Description:	1 online resource (239 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Film and media studies series Film + media studies.
Subject:	Television broadcasting -- Canada. Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Canada. National characteristics, Canadian. National characteristics, Canadian. Television broadcasting. Television broadcasting -- Social aspects. Canada.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11258949

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Other authors / contributors:	Bredin, Marian, editor. Henderson, Scott, 1965- editor. Matheson, Sarah A., 1968- editor.
ISBN:	9781554583881 1554583888 129931306X 9781299313064 9781554583898 1554583896
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. This book surveys the commercial and technological imperatives of the Canadian television industry, the role of the CBC as Canada's public broadcaster, and the function of television's "star system."
Other form:	Canadian television.: Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011, ©2012. Film and media studies series Film and media studies series

Table of Contents:

Foreword : One thing about television and ten things about Canadian TV / John Doyle
From kine to hi-def : a personal view of television studies in Canada / Mary Jane Miller
(Who knows?) What remains to be seen : archives, access, and other practical problems for the study of Canadian "national" television / Jennifer VanderBurgh
Television, film and the Canadian star system / Liz Czach
Producing aboriginal television in Canada : obstacles and opportunities / Marian Bredin
Hypercommercialism and Canadian children's television : the case of YTV / Kyle Asquith
Canadianizing Canadians : television, youth, identity / Michele Byers
How even American reality TV can perform a public service on Canadian television / Derek S. Foster
Television, nation, and the situation comedy in Canada : cultural diversity and Little mosque on the prairie / Sarah A. Matheson
"Come on Eileen" : making Shania Canadian again / Scott Henderson.

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