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Recasting history : how CBC Television has shaped Canada's past /
- Title
- Recasting history : how CBC Television has shaped Canada's past / Monica MacDonald.
- Author
- MacDonald, Monica, 1965-
- Publication
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 263 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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."--
- Subjects
- Documentary television programs
- Historical television programs
- Television broadcasting policy
- Television and history
- History on television
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Television and history > Canada
- Documentary television programs > Canada > History and criticism
- Historical television programs > Canada > History and criticism
- Television broadcasting policy > Canada > History
- History
- Canada
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Television > Social aspects > Canada
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation > English Television Network > Influence
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic formats.
- Contents
- CBC television presents ... Canadian history! Explorations -- A New History of Canada? Images of Canada -- Television History and the Star Journalist: The National Dream -- Behind the History Wars at the CBC: The Valour and the Horror -- One Big Story: Canada: A People's History.
- ISBN
- 9780773556317
- 9780773556324
- 077355632X
- 0773556311
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library