Tv Nationalisms

Author : Marusya Bociurkiw
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781554583089

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Feeling Canadian by Marusya Bociurkiw Pdf

“My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of affect theory, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect tracks the ways that ideas about the Canadian nation flow from screen to audience and then from body to body. From the most recent Quebec referendum to 9/11 and current news coverage of the so-called “terrorist threat,” media theorist Marusya Bociurkiw argues that a significant intensifying of nationalist content on Canadian television became apparent after 1995. Close readings of TV shows and news items such as Canada: A People’s History, North of 60, and coverage of the funeral of Pierre Trudeau reveal how television works to resolve the imagined community of nation, as well as the idea of a national self and national others, via affect. Affect theory, with its notions of changeability, fluidity, and contagion, is, the author argues, well suited to the study of television and its audience. Useful for scholars and students of media studies, communications theory, and national television and for anyone interested in Canadian popular culture, this highly readable book fills the need for critical scholarly analysis of Canadian television’s nationalist practices.

Author : Marusya Bociurkiw
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781554583546

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Feeling Canadian by Marusya Bociurkiw Pdf

“My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of affect theory, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect tracks the ways that ideas about the Canadian nation flow from screen to audience and then from body to body. From the most recent Quebec referendum to 9/11 and current news coverage of the so-called “terrorist threat,” media theorist Marusya Bociurkiw argues that a significant intensifying of nationalist content on Canadian television became apparent after 1995. Close readings of TV shows and news items such as Canada: A People’s History, North of 60, and coverage of the funeral of Pierre Trudeau reveal how television works to resolve the imagined community of nation, as well as the idea of a national self and national others, via affect. Affect theory, with its notions of changeability, fluidity, and contagion, is, the author argues, well suited to the study of television and its audience. Useful for scholars and students of media studies, communications theory, and national television and for anyone interested in Canadian popular culture, this highly readable book fills the need for critical scholarly analysis of Canadian television’s nationalist practices.

Author : Lori Jean Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Foreign television programs
ISBN : OCLC:20248566

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Nationalism in Canadian Television by Lori Jean Johnson Pdf

Author : Charles Clover
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300269253

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Black Wind, White Snow by Charles Clover Pdf

A fascinating study of the root motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin’s government in Russia “Part intellectual history, part portrait gallery . . . Black Wind, White Snow traces the background to Putin’s ideas with verve and clarity.”—Geoffrey Hosking, Financial Times “Required reading. This is a vivid, panoramic history of bad ideas, chasing the metastasis of the doctrine known as Eurasianism. . . . Reading Charles Clover will help you understand the world of lies and delusions that is Eurasia.”—Ben Judah, Standpoint Charles Clover, award-winning journalist and former Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times, here analyzes the idea of "Eurasianism," a theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity and geography. Clover traces Eurasianism’s origins in the writings of white Russian exiles in 1920s Europe, through Siberia’s Gulag archipelago in the 1950s, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, and up to its steady infiltration of the governing elite around Vladimir Putin. This eye-opening analysis pieces together the evidence for Eurasianism’s place at the heart of Kremlin thinking today and explores its impact on recent events, the annexation of Crimea, and the rise in Russia of anti-Western paranoia and imperialist rhetoric, as well as Putin’s sometimes perplexing political actions and ambitions. Based on extensive research and dozens of interviews with Putin’s close advisers, this quietly explosive story will be essential reading for anyone concerned with Russia’s past century, and its future.

Author : Stacy Takacs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000067781314

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TV Nationalisms by Stacy Takacs Pdf

Author : Arvind Rajagopal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521648394

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Politics After Television by Arvind Rajagopal Pdf

An analysis of the use of media by political and religious interest groups in India

Author : Edward Brennan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319968605

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A Post-Nationalist History of Television in Ireland by Edward Brennan Pdf

This book explores the question of how society has changed with the introduction of private screens. Taking the history of television in Ireland as a case study due to its position at the intersection of British and American media influences, this work argues that, internationally, the transnational nature of television has been obscured by a reliance on institutional historical sources. This has, in turn, muted the diversity of audience experiences in terms of class, gender and geography. By shifting the focus away from the default national lens and instead turning to audience memories as a key source, A Post-Nationalist History of Television in Ireland defies the notion of a homogenous national television experience and embraces the diverse and transnational nature of watching television. Turning to people’s memories of past media, this study ultimately suggests that the arrival of the television in Ireland, and elsewhere, was part of a long-term, incremental change where the domestic and the intimate became increasingly fused with the global.

Author : Richard Collins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442654921

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Culture, Communication and National Identity by Richard Collins Pdf

‘There can be no political sovereignty without culture sovereignty.’ So argued the CBC in 1985 in its evidence to the Caplan/Sauvageau Task Force on Broadcasting Policy. Richard Collins challenges this assumption. He argues in this study of nationalism and Canadian television policy that Canada’s political sovereignty depends much less on Canadian content in television than has generally been accepted. His analysis focuses on television drama, at the centre of television policy in the 1980s. Collins questions the conventional image of Canada as a weak national entity undermined by its population’s predilection for foreign television. Rather, he argues, Canada is held together, not by a shared repertoire of symbols, a national culture, but by other social forces, notably political institutions. Collins maintains that important advantages actually and potentially flow from Canada’s wear national symbolic culture. Rethinking the relationships between television and society in Canada may yield a more successful broadcasting policy, more popular television programming, and a better understanding of the links between culture and the body politic. As the European Community moves closer to political unity, the Canadian case may become more relevant to Europe, which, Collins suggests, already fears the ‘Canadianization’ of its television. He maintains that a European multilingual society, without a shared culture or common European audio-visual sphere and with viewers watching foreign television, can survive successfully as a political entity – just as Canada has.

Author : Michael Ignatieff
Publisher : Pushkin Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782279112

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Blood & Belonging by Michael Ignatieff Pdf

Reissue of an incisive exploration of the many faces of modern nationalism by the esteemed author of On Consolation ___________________ 'An immensely impressive meditation on the post-Cold War period... powerful and subtle' Library Journal 'Ignatieff is a reporter and thinker, and both his reportage and reflections are useful and often illuminating' LA Times 'Vivid and readable... [It] provides unforgettable impressions of societies that are going in the wrong direction on the highway to brotherhood and unity' Washington Post ___________________ In 1993 Michael Ignatieff set out on a journey to the former Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan and Northern Ireland in order to explore the many faces of modern nationalism. Why, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, were so many nation states disintegrating into ethnic conflict? What did nationalism promise, that so many were willing to shed blood in the name of an idea of belonging? In a stimulating mix of interviews, history and evocative reportage, Ignatieff provides a searching analysis of the brutal conflicts and powerful fantasies produced by ethnic nationalism, and questions the possibility of a nationalism based on shared civic values. Reissued with a new preface, Blood & Belonging is a nuanced, fascinating account of one of our era's defining political issues.

Author : Khalil Rinnawi
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0761834397

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Instant Nationalism by Khalil Rinnawi Pdf

Instant Nationalism: McArabism, al-Jazeera, and Transnational Media in the Arab World discusses the role of Arab transnational media, in particular the Qatar-based al-Jazeera, in the emergence of a new pan-Arabism. The book argues that through context and technology a new pan-Arab identity known as McArabism is being formed. McArabism, the author suggests, represents the convergence of local tribal identities with globalization and the forming, or reforming, of a new regional Arab identity. This book also explores the impact of this new identity on Arab society, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and new representations of the West and the Islamic and Arab World.

Author : Shanti Kumar
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252091667

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Gandhi Meets Primetime by Shanti Kumar Pdf

Shanti Kumar's Gandhi Meets Primetime examines how cultural imaginations of national identity have been transformed by the rapid growth of satellite and cable television in postcolonial India. To evaluate the growing influence of foreign and domestic satellite and cable channels since 1991, the book considers a wide range of materials including contemporary television programming, historical archives, legal documents, policy statements, academic writings and journalistic accounts. Kumar argues that India's hybrid national identity is manifested in the discourses found in this variety of empirical sources. He deconstructs representations of Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation on the state-sponsored network Doordarshan and those found on Rupert Murdoch's STAR TV network. The book closely analyzes print advertisements to trace the changing status of the television set as a cultural commodity in postcolonial India and examines publicity brochures, promotional materials and programming schedules of Indian-language networks to outline the role of vernacular media in the discourse of electronic capitalism. The empirical evidence is illuminated by theoretical analyses that combine diverse approaches such as cultural studies, poststructuralism and postcolonial criticism.

Author : Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317526230

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Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television by Stephen Hutchings,Vera Tolz Pdf

Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It argues that television’s role here has been reinforced, rather than diminished, by the rise of new media technologies. Through an analysis of a wide range of news and other television programmes, the book shows how the covert meanings of discourse on a particular issue can diverge from the overt significance attributed to it, just as the impact of that discourse may not conform with the original aims of the broadcasters. The book discusses the tension between the imperative to maintain security through centralised government and overall national cohesion that Russia shares with other European states, and the need to remain sensitive to, and to accommodate, the needs and perspectives of ethnic minorities and labour migrants. It compares the increasingly isolationist popular ethnonationalism in Russia, which harks back to "old-fashioned" values, with the similar rise of the Tea Party in the United States and the UK Independence Party in Britain. Throughout, this extremely rich, well-argued book complicates and challenges received wisdom on Russia’s recent descent into authoritarianism. It points to a regime struggling to negotiate the dilemmas it faces, given its Soviet legacy of ethnic particularism, weak civil society, large native Muslim population and overbearing, yet far from entirely effective, state control of the media.

Author : Barry Berlin
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015021559680

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The American Trojan Horse by Barry Berlin Pdf

The American Trojan Horse is a historical and descriptive study of the United States/Canadian mass communications border war. It centers on the millions of dollars spent annually by Canadian companies to advertise on U.S. border stations. Canada's measures to retain this money led to a protracted international dispute. Barry Berlin chronicles this dispute as it evolves through its two stages: Canadian action (1970 to 1976) and U.S. response (1976 to 1988). Berlin identifies the roots of the conflict; taking center stage is Canada's vision of U.S. media: a modern Trojan Horse penetrating domestic media and ultimately absorbing Canadian culture and identity. Barry Berlin meticulously guides his readers through each stage of the U.S./Canadian border war which began in the early 1970s and continued through several administrations both in Washington, D.C., and Ottawa. He identifies four interrelated roots to the conflict that places primary focus on Canadian nationalism--Canada's understandable fear of cultural and economic absorption by its formidable southern neighbor. Berlin begins by identifying the problem, its evolution, and its causes. He then chronicles Canadian advertising controls--deletion days and legislation. Border station response to these controls is broken down into four stages: initial moves, new tacks, pull it together, and finally war winds down. A summary concludes this volume.

Author : Richard Maxwell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015033255640

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The Spectacle of Democracy by Richard Maxwell Pdf

A study of the transformation of television in Spain following the end of Franco's dictatorship, Maxwell's book examines the politics of the privatization of television, the rise of regional television, and the transnational realignment of national media space.

Author : Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252092091

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The Prime-Time Presidency by Shawn J. Parry-Giles Pdf

Contrasting strong women and multiculturalism with portrayals of a heroic white male leading the nation into battle, The Prime-Time Presidency explores the NBC drama The West Wing, paying particular attention to its role in promoting cultural meaning about the presidency and U.S. nationalism. Based in a careful, detailed analysis of the "first term" of The West Wing's President Josiah Bartlet, this criticism highlights the ways the text negotiates powerful tensions and complex ambiguities at the base of U.S. national identity--particularly the role of gender, race, and militarism in the construction of U.S. nationalism. Unlike scattered and disparate collections of essays, Trevor Parry-Giles and Shawn J. Parry-Giles offer a sustained, ideologically driven criticism of The West Wing. The Prime-time Presidency presents a detailed critique of the program rooted in presidential history, an appreciation of television's power as a source of political meaning, and television's contribution to the articulation of U.S. national identity.