Feeling Canadian by Marusya Bociurkiw
My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian! How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen.
"Feeling Canadian is an invaluable contribution to the study of Canadian TVIt offers a rigorously theoretical and yet remarkably accessible way of thinking about how televisual representations produce feelings of nationalism. By bringing affect theory to television studies, Marusya Bociurkiw asks us to consider the feelings that television evokes in us. Drawing also on anecdotal theory, and providing anecdotes that most readers will be very familiar with, Bociurkiw's analysis situates us firmly within the context of our own uneasy, ambivalent, and sometimes embarrassing viewing pleasures." -- Michele Byers, Saint Mary's University, editor of Growing Up Degrassi: Television, Identity and Youth Cultures (2005) -- 201103
"À l'encontre de ce que soutient souvent la pensée postmoderniste, l'ouvrage de Bociurkiw illustre À quel point la question de la nation est loin d'être devenue obsolète.... Sa force se situe À deux niveaux : À l'aide de la théorie du trauma, il propose un cadre original pour étudier la formation des représentations collectives qui forgent les identités nationales ; avec finesse et sensibilité, il esquisse une image touchante de la société canadienne dans ses efforts de porter un regard réflexif sur elle-même." -- Angeliki Koukoutsaki-Monnier -- Communication, Volume 30/2, 201212
"Feeling Canadian is an original and incisive analysis of the pivotal role of television in creating the affective fabric of a nation. In its careful attention to, and appreciation of, the particularity of Canadian feelings, and of feeling Canadian, it provides a compelling model for accounts of different national contexts of affects, popular culture, and feelings. Feeling Canadian reminds us of the necessity to look at the differences and similarities of nationhood in the twenty-first century." -- Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney, author of Blush: Faces of Shame (2005)
"Bociurkiw's writing in Feeling Canadian is rich enough to provide the benefit of academic research on our media landscape. Although it examines pop culture academically, the analysis is ... accessible to readers seeking to understand the significance of mediation on our feelings and perception of nation." (See the full review on [http://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2011/06/feeling-canadian-television-nationalism-and-affect Rabble.ca].) -- Humberto DaSilva -- Rabble.ca, 201106
"À l'encontre de ce que soutient souvent la pensée postmoderniste, l'ouvrage de Bociurkiw illustre À quel point la question de la nation est loin d'être devenue obsolète.... Sa force se situe À deux niveaux : À l'aide de la théorie du trauma, il propose un cadre original pour étudier la formation des représentations collectives qui forgent les identités nationales ; avec finesse et sensibilité, il esquisse une image touchante de la société canadienne dans ses efforts de porter un regard réflexif sur elle-même." -- Angeliki Koukoutsaki-Monnier -- Communication, Volume 30/2, 201212
"Feeling Canadian is an original and incisive analysis of the pivotal role of television in creating the affective fabric of a nation. In its careful attention to, and appreciation of, the particularity of Canadian feelings, and of feeling Canadian, it provides a compelling model for accounts of different national contexts of affects, popular culture, and feelings. Feeling Canadian reminds us of the necessity to look at the differences and similarities of nationhood in the twenty-first century." -- Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney, author of Blush: Faces of Shame (2005)
"Bociurkiw's writing in Feeling Canadian is rich enough to provide the benefit of academic research on our media landscape. Although it examines pop culture academically, the analysis is ... accessible to readers seeking to understand the significance of mediation on our feelings and perception of nation." (See the full review on [http://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2011/06/feeling-canadian-television-nationalism-and-affect Rabble.ca].) -- Humberto DaSilva -- Rabble.ca, 201106
Marusya Bociurkiw received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia. She has published articles, essays, and reviews in academic, arts, and activist journals and books in Canada and the United States for the past twenty years. She is the author of four literary books, and her films and videos have screened at film festivals, art house cinemas, and universities around the world. She is currently an assistant professor of media theory and head of the Media Studies stream in the School of Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781554582686 |
| ISBN 10 | 1554582687 |
| Title | Feeling Canadian |
| Author | Marusya Bociurkiw |
| Series | Film And Media Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier University Press |
| Year published | 2011-04-30 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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