{"product_id":"culture-communication-and-national-identity-9780802067722","title":"Culture Communication and National Identity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollins 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCollins maintains that important advantages actually and potentially flow from Canada’s wear national symbolic culture. Rethinking the relations\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359184224599,"sku":"9780802067722","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802067722.jpg?v=1754123918","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/culture-communication-and-national-identity-9780802067722","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}