Recasting History – How Cbc Television Has Shaped Canada’s Past
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Name: Recasting History – How Cbc Television Has Shaped Canada’s Past
Format: epub
Size: 3.77 MB
Book:
Title: Recasting History
Author: Monica MacDonald
Language: English
Year: 2019
Subjects: History, Sociology, Nonfiction
Publisher: MQUP
ISBN: 9780773556317
Total pages: 784 str.
Description:
Since 1952, CBC television has played a unique role as the primary mass media purveyor of Canadian history. Yet until now, there have been no comprehensive accounts of Canadian history on television. Monica MacDonald takes us behind the scenes of the major documentaries and docudramas broadcast on the CBC, including in Explorations (1956-64) and the series Images of Canada (1972-76), The National Dream (1974), The Valour and the Horror (1992), and Canada: A People’s History (2000-02). Drawing on a wide range of sources, MacDonald explores how producers struggled to represent the Canadian past under a range of external and internal pressures. Despite dramatic shifts in the writing of history over this period, she determines that television themes and interpretations largely remained the same. The greater change was in the production and presentation, particularly in the role of professional historians, as journalists emerged not only as the new producers of…
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