Canadian Television

"The compelling and wide-ranging essays in this collection attest to the strength of television studies in Canada even-or especially-at a moment when both the nation and the medium of television have become destabilized critical categories. A welcome addition to the field of media studies in Canada." -- ZoÃ" Druick, Simon Fraser University, co-editor of Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television (WLU Press, 2006)
While the digital age transforms all media and globalization erodes national boundaries, television and its domestic contexts are still perceived as serving some form of national interest. Canadian Television: Text and Context celebrates English-Canadian television within this nexus of concerns, asking how our TV texts and the issues they raise provide Canadians with a "collective working through" of our shared realities. Crossing disciplines and genres in rich explorations of forms and practices, this impressive collection signals loud and clear the depth and diversity with which Canadian television studies has arrived. -- Christine Ramsay, University of Regina, editor of Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice (WLU Press, 2011)