Communicating in Canada's past : essays in media history / / edited by Gene Allen and Daniel J. Robinson

• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.230971
• Soggetto topico: Mass media and history - Canada; Mass media - Canada - History
• Soggetto geografico: Kanada; Canada
• Persona (resp. second.): AllenGene <1952->; RobinsonDaniel J.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: The Catholic press: a challenge to the 'journalism of information' paradigm / Dominique Marquis -- Old media, new media, and competition: Canadian press and the emergence of radio news / Gene Allen -- Britishness, the BBC, and the birth of Canadian Public Broadcasting, 1928-1936 / Simon J. Potter -- 'The luxury of moderate use': Seagram and moderation advertising, 1934-1955 / Daniel J. Robinson -- Evelyn Dick, soap star: newspaper coverage of the torso murder case, 1946-1947 / 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's 1971 election pamphlet / James Cairns -- Whence and whither: the historiography of Canadian broadcasting / Mary Vipond -- Recent trends in research on the history of the press in Quebec: towards a cultural history / Fernande Roy -- Encounters with theory / Paul Rutherford.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume assembles both well-established and up-and-coming scholars to address sizable gaps in the literature on media history in Canada.
• Titolo autorizzato: Communicating in Canada's past
• ISBN: 1-4426-9700-8; 1-4426-9735-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791665503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II