Minority language media [[electronic resource] ] : concepts, critiques, and case studies / / edited by Mike Cormack and Niamh Hourigan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450968803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Clevedon, : Multilingual Matters Ltd., c2007
• ISBN: 1-280-82863-3; 9786610828630; 1-85359-965-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Collana: Multilingual matters ; ; 138
• Altri autori (Persone): CormackMichael J; HouriganNiamh <1973->
• Disciplina: 302.23089
• Soggetti: Ethnic mass media; Linguistic minorities; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Studying Minority Language Media -- Chapter 2. Functional Completeness in Minority Language Media -- Chapter 3. Minority Language Media and the Public Sphere -- Chapter 4. The Media and Language Maintenance -- Chapter 5. The Role of Networks in Minority Language Television Campaigns -- Chapter 6. From Media to Multimedia: Workflows and Language in the Digital Economy -- Chapter 7. Speaking Up: A Brief History of Minority Languages and the Electronic Media1Worldwide -- Chapter 8. Minority Languages and the Internet: New Threats, New Opportunities -- Chapter 9. Linguistic Normalisation and Local Television in the Basque Country -- Chapter 10. Media Policy and Language Policy in Catalonia -- Chapter 11. The Territory of Television: S4C and the Representation of the ‘Whole of Wales’ -- Chapter 12. Translation and Minority Language Media: Potential and Problems: An Irish Perspective -- Chapter 13. Signs of Change: Sign Language and Televisual Media in the UK -- Chapter 14. Minority Language Media Studies: Key Themes for Future Scholarship -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the founding of television stations in Welsh, Catalan and Basque ; in the early 1980's, minority languages have gradually gained a new prominence, particularly in Europe. As globalisation has developed, questions concerning such languages and the effect that the media might have on them have become more urgent. This book is the first general study of the many issues raised by this situation. Fourteen researchers from across Europe and the USA examine questions such as the media needs of minority languages, the role of the media in language maintenance, the impact of digital media, and problems raised by translation. Case studies range from the representativeness of drama on Welsh television to Sign Language in the media. Taken as a whole, this book establishes the field of minority language media studies and forms an important basis for future research.

Plateaus of freedom : nationality, culture, and state security in Canada, 1940-1960 / / Mark Kristmanson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787487903321
• Autore: Kristmanson Mark <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4426-2315-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Collana: Canadian Social History Series
• Disciplina: 971.063
• Soggetti: Politics and culture - Canada - History - 20th century; Art and state - Canada - History - 20th century; Internal security - Canada - History - 20th century; Intelligence service - Canada - History - 20th century; Cold War; Canada Cultural policy; Canada Intellectual life 20th century; Canada Politics and government 1945-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Characterizations of Tracy Philipps -- 2. Love Your Neighbour: The RCMP and the National Film Board, 1948-1953 -- 3. Remembering To Forget -- 4. State Security and Cultural Administration: The Case of Peter Dwyer -- 5. Pulp History: Repossessing the Gouzenko Myth -- 6. 'I Came To Sing': Paul Robeson on the Border -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Canadians are not accustomed to thinking of censorship, secret intelligence, and propaganda as a single entity. Much less do they consider that these covertly militaristic activities have anything to do with culture.' So writes Mark Krismanson in this important study of the intertwining activities and careers of those involved in Canada's security agencies and in the state-sanctioned culture industry during the delight of the Cold War. The connections between secret intelligence and culture might appear to be merely coincidental. Both the spies and the arts people worked with words, with symbols and hidden meanings, with ideas. They had regular informal luncheons together in Ottawa. Some members of the intelligence community even found careers in the arts. Less than a decade after defecting, the Russian Igor Gouzenko wrote a pulp fiction Cold War spy novel- for which he received a Governor General's award. And Peter Dwyer, Britain's top security official in North America during World War II, was a playwright who after the war worked in Canada's intelligence community before drafting the founding for the Canada Council and becoming its first director. But Plateaus of Freedom details much more than a casual relationship between security and the arts. As Kristmanson demonstrates, 'the censorship-intelligence-propaganda complex that proliferated in Canada after World War II played a counterpoint between national culture and state security, with the result that freedom, especially intellectual freedom, plateaued on the principle of nationality.' The security and cultural policy measures examined here, from the RCMP investigations at the National Film Board that led to numerous firings, to the harassment of the extraordinary African-American singer and Soviet sympathizer Paul Robeson, 'attest to the fragility and the enduring power of art to effect social change'.