When Television was Young : : Primetime Canada, 1952-1967 / / Paul Rutherford.
A decade after the first Canadian telecasts in September 1952, TV had conquered the country. Why was the little screen so enthusiastically welcomed by Canadians? Was television in its early years more innovative, less commerical, and more Canadian than current than current offerings? In this study o...
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Rutherford, Paul, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut When Television was Young : Primetime Canada, 1952-1967 / Paul Rutherford. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©1990 1 online resource (637 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Graphics -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Personal Journey -- 1. Expectations -- Part One: Structures -- 2. Enter CBC-TV -- 3. What's on Tonight? -- 4. Enter CTV -- Part Two: Genres -- 5. Information for Everyone -- 6. Variety's Heyday -- 7. In Gameland -- 8. Culture on the Small Screen -- 9. 'And Now a Word from Our Sponsors' -- 10. Storytelling -- 11. Versions of Reality -- 12. On Viewing -- Afterword: Understanding Television -- APPENDIX I: Forms and Genres -- APPENDIX II: Viewing Analysis -- Notes -- Primary Sources -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A decade after the first Canadian telecasts in September 1952, TV had conquered the country. Why was the little screen so enthusiastically welcomed by Canadians? Was television in its early years more innovative, less commerical, and more Canadian than current than current offerings? In this study of what is often called the 'golden age' of television, Paul Rutherford has set out to dispel some cherished myths and to resurrect the memory of a noble experiment in the making of Canadian culture. He focuses on three key aspects of the story. The first is the development of the national service, including the critical acclaim won by Radio-Canada, the struggles of the CBC's English service to provide mass entertainment that could compete with the Hollywood product, and the effective challenge of private television to the whole dream of public broadcasting.The second deals with the wealth of made-in-Canada programming available to please and inform vviewers - even commercials receive close attention. Altogether, Rutherford argues, Canadian programming reflected as well as enhanced the prevailing values and assumptions of the mainstream.The final focus is on McLuhan's Question: What happens to society when a new medium of communications enters the picture? Rutherford's findings cast doubt upon the common presumptions about the awesome power of television.Television in Canada, Rutherford concludes, amounts to a failed revolution. It never realized the ambbitions of its masters or the fears of its critics. Its course was shaped not only by the will of the government, the power of commerce, and the empire of Hollywood, but also by the desires and habits of the viewers. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Television broadcasting Canada History. Television programs Canada History. HISTORY / Canada / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442683334 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442683334 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442683334.jpg |
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