What Television Remembers

2023-10-01 Performing Arts

Author : Jennifer VanderBurgh
Release : 2023-10-01
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book What Television Remembers written by Jennifer VanderBurgh. This book was released on 2023-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Television in Canada has been undervalued as a cultural form. Despite being publicly funded, Canadian television programs are also notoriously difficult to access once they go off the air, which has compounded the problem. In What Television Remembers Jennifer VanderBurgh intervenes in the story of the medium in Canada by exploring the long relationship between TV and the city of Toronto. From the first demonstration of television at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1939 and the mass viewing of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation broadcast in 1953 to the late-century installation of TV screens in public spaces around the city, television has shaped Toronto’s collective imagination and affirmed viewers in their multiple identities as local residents, national citizens, and transnational consumers. In a close reading of Toronto-based CBC dramas from the 1960s to 2010, VanderBurgh explains how the city has functioned as a strategic location in CBC programming, reflecting dramatically changing ideas about Canadian identity, community, and citizenship. At a time when many are suggesting that the era of television is over, What Television Remembers sounds the alarm that we are in danger of forgetting TV in Canada without appreciating the complexities of its contributions and legacy.

Do You Remember TV?

1999-04 Performing Arts

Author : Michael Gitter
Release : 1999-04
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Do You Remember TV? written by Michael Gitter. This book was released on 1999-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will never forget the Brady Bunch double episode in Hawaii. But do you remember Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway? Can you recite the Oscar Mayer Wiener jingle or win at Name That Tune? Have you seen every Love Boat episode with Charo in it? Take a Technicolor journey back to the days when cable and satellite were science fiction and the boob tube had three channels that signed off at 1:00 am to the national anthem. Do You Remember TV? resuscitates the most vivid moments of our couch-potato youth with 144 pages crammed full of television tidbits from the late '50s, '60s, '70s, and early '80s. From Good morning, angels to Good night, John Boy, from the Oscar Night streaker to Oo! Oo! Mr. Kotter! this tiny tribute to the great days of TV brings back the favorite moments that are forever lodged in our collective TV unconscious.

I Remember Television

1989 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Ira Skutch
Release : 1989
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Download or read book I Remember Television written by Ira Skutch. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...fascinating...everything you'd want to know about those wonderful years of live TV can be found in this book!" --Ed McMahon

Television Histories

2014-10-17 Performing Arts

Author : Gary R. Edgerton
Release : 2014-10-17
Genre : Performing Arts
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Download or read book Television Histories written by Gary R. Edgerton. This book was released on 2014-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A&E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What falsehoods enter our collective memory as truths? How is one to know what is real and what is imagined -- or ignored -- by producers, directors, or writers? Gary Edgerton and Peter Rollins have collected a group of essays that answer these and many other questions. The contributors examine the full spectrum of historical genres, but also institutions such as the History Channel and production histories of such series as The Jack Benny Show, which ran for fifteen years. The authors explore the tensions between popular history and professional history, and the tendency of some academics to declare the past "off limits" to nonscholars. Several of them point to the tendency for television histories to embed current concerns and priorities within the past, as in such popular shows as Quantum Leap and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. The result is an insightful portrayal of the power television possesses to influence our culture.

Music Clubs Magazine

1950 Music

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Release : 1950
Genre : Music
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