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category: Business & Economics
published: Jan 1987
ISBN:9780774802789
publisher: UBC Press

Turn Up the Contrast

CBC Television Drama since 1952

by Mary Jane Miller

tagged: media & communications industries, television & video
Description

From Shakespeare to cop shows, sitcoms to docudramas, for over three decades the CBC has presented viewers with every variety of television drama and has become Canada's closest equivalent to a national theatre. Turn Up the Contrast is the first book to explore the content of Canadian television drama and is both a critical analysis and a survey history of how Canadians have used the medium to tell themselves their own stories.

 

As a part of her research, Mary Jane Miller watched thousands of hours of television, sampling series and viewing in their entirety shorter programs such as movies and mini-series. Asking a variety of questions, she selected a number of programs for detailed analysis, and devotees of The Beachcombers, King of Kensington, Seeing Things, Cariboo Country, Wojeck or A Gift to Last will be pleased to find their favourites among those discussed at length.

 

A University of British Columbia Press / CBC Enterprises Co-Publication.

About the Author

Mary Jane Miller

Contributor Notes

Mary Jane Miller is a professor of dramatic literature at Brock University.

Editorial Reviews

Turn Up the Contrast will be the essential reference book for some time; it is full, informative, discussable, and well indexed.

— Canadian Theatre Review

This book offers much more than a digest of review pieces; it stands on its own as valid and scholarly criticism.

— Choice
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