We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture - Softcover

Brady, Miranda J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774835095 ISBN 13: 9780774835091

Publisher: UBC Press, 2018

Synopsis

We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics or interventions in art, film, television, and journalism to disrupt Canada's national narratives and rewrite them from Indigenous perspectives. Accounts of strategically chosen moments such as survivor testimonies at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission combined with conversations with CBC reporter Duncan McCue and artists such as Kent Monkman bring to life Brady and Kelly's powerful argument that media tactics can be employed to change Canadian institutions from within. As articulations of Indigenous sovereignty, these tactics can also spark new forms of political and cultural expression in Indigenous communities.

About this title

Book Description

Powerful and inspiring, We Interrupt This Program brings to light a new facet of Indigenous sovereignty – the use of media tactics to infuse Canadian culture with Indigenous perspectives and to raise political and cultural consciousness in Indigenous communities.

About the Author

Miranda J. Brady is associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa. John M. H. Kelly is adjunct research professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0774835095
• ISBN 13: 9780774835091
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 220