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Turn Up the Contrast

CBC Television Drama since 1952

by (author) Mary Jane Miller

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2011
Category
Media & Communications Industries, Television & Video
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774843218
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774802789
    Publish Date
    Jan 1987
    List Price
    $85.00

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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 is professor emerita, Brock University, and author of Rewind and Search: Conversations with the Makers and Decision-Makers of CBC Television Drama and Turn of the Contrast: CBC Television Drama since 1952.

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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.

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