Recasting history : how CBC Television has shaped Canada's past
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McGill-Queen's University Press,
Montreal :
[2019]
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About
"This book explores Canadian history documentary and docudrama programming on CBC television since its beginnings in 1952. During this fifty-year period, television was a uniquely powerful medium --at once intimate and widely shared, reaching millions of people. CBC was the only Canadian broadcaster to consistently show history programming and has played a unique role in shaping Canadians' perceptions of their history. Analyzing the major works of Canadian history on CBC television over fifty years -- Explorations (1956-63), Images of Canada (1972-76), The National Dream (1974), The Valour and the Horror (1992), and Canada: A People's History (2000-02) -- reveals patterns and developments in content and presentation. As the author argues, these developments were not arbitrary but were impelled by a wide range of external factors: developments in broadcasting policy and regulation in Canada; television industry developments, including competition from a growing American market and for new Canadian broadcasters (such as CTV and Global) for viewers and for advertising revenue; the evolution of television itself, including the standards and financing of production and attention to ratings, technological change, and job creation; and the evolution of journalism and the role of journalists as supposed authorities. This book is both a critique of public history and a political economy of television production. The author has three major findings."--
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Details
- ISBN: 9780773556317
- ISBN: 9780773556324
- ISBN: 077355632X
- ISBN: 0773556311
- Physical Description: xii, 263 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ℗♭2019.
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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
English Television Network >
Influence.
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Television >
Social aspects >
Canada.
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History on television.
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Television and history >
Canada.
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Television broadcasting policy >
Canada >
History.
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Historical television programs >
Canada >
History and criticism.
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Documentary television programs >
Canada >
History and criticism.