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Book SynopsisThe first collection of its kind, this volume assembles both well-established and up-and-coming scholars to address sizable gaps in the literature on media history in Canada.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Media History as Concept and Practice Gene Allen and Daniel J. Robinson Part I: New Research in Canadian Media History The Catholic Press: A Challenge ot the 'Journalism of Information' Paradigm Dominique Marquis Old Media, New Media and Competition: Canadian Press and the Emergence of Radio News Gene Allan Britishness, the BBC and the Birth of Canadian Public Broadcasting, 1928-1936 Simon J. Potter The Luxury of Moderate Use': Seagram and Moderation Advertising Daniel J. Robinson Evelyn Dick, Soap Star: Newspaper Coverage of the Torso Murder Case Alison Jacques Variety Show as National Identity: CBC Television and Dominion Day Celebrations, 1958-1980 Matthew Hayday Politics? Fear Not!: The Rise of the Average Superhero in the Visual Rhetoric of Bill Davis' 1971 Election Pamphlet James Cairns Part II: Historiography and Media History Whence and Whither: The Historiography of Canadian Broadcasting Mary Vipond Recent Trends in Research on the History of the Press in Quebec: Towads a Cultural History Fernande Roy Encounters with Theory Paul Rutherford
