Programming Reality

Kotsopoulos Patsy

ISBN 10: 1554580102 / ISBN 13: 9781554580101

Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008

About this Item

Considers the shapes that content takes in particular programs and genres, and the policies that guide program content in Canada. This work combines television studies with a range of contemporary perspectives to explore Canada's national narrative as it is expressed by the interplay between fiction and reality on Canadian television. Editor(s): Druick, Zoe; Kotsopoulos, Aspa. Num Pages: 354 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: APT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 538. . 2008. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Programming Reality
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1554580102
• ISBN 13: 9781554580101
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television, the first anthology dedicated to analyses of Canadian television content, is a collection of original, interdisciplinary articles, combining textual analysis and political economy of communications. It explores the television that has thrived in the Canadian regulatory and cultural context: namely, programs that straddle the border between reality and fiction or even blur it. The conceptual basis of this collection is the hybrid nature of television fare: the widely theorized notion that all mediations of reality involve fiction in the form of narrative or symbolic shaping. Each of the contributions here is a reminder, too, of the significant relationship of television to nation building in Canada—to the imaginative work involved in thinking through the relations that constitute nations, citizens, and communities. The collection focuses on English-language Canadian television because the imperatives guiding its texts are markedly different from those pertaining to their French-lanugage counterparts. The collection, therefore, develops a nuance of perspective on the cultural and political economic specificities that inform the imaginative work of television production for English Canada.

About the Authors

Zoë Druick teaches media studies, popular culture, and cultural theory in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Her publications include Projecting Canada: Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board (2007) and articles on documentary and educational film and cultural policy in the Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Canadian Journal of Communication, and Topia.

Aspa Kotsopoulos is Senior Policy Analyst, Television Policy and Applications, Broadcasting, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). She has taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Victoria. She has published a number of articles on television and film in a variety of journals and essay collections.