Title: Seeing ourselves : media power and policy in Canada /
Authors: Holmes, Helen, 1944-; Taras, David, 1950-
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Canada,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Mass media Canada
Contents: Introduction: seeing power and change in the Canadian media / Helen Holmes and David Taras -- Television news frames in the 1993 Canadian election / Matthew Mendelsohn -- From Flora to Kim: thirty years of representation of Canadian women politicians / Gertrude J. Robinson and Armande Saint-Jean -- Children and television: a contemporary look / Jeffrey L. Derevensky and Carolyn Klein -- The prime minister of Saturday night: Don Cherry, the CBC, and the cultural production of intolerance / James Gillet, Philip White, and Kevin Young -- No borders, no problems: mixed media, cultures of youth, and music in the marketplace / Martin Laba -- Canadian humour in the media: exporting John Candy and importing Homer Simpson / Beverly Rasporich -- And always will be: the Canadian film industry / Seth Feldman -- The media and defamation law in Canada / Mary Gerace Gold -- Mimicking Bluebeard: feminism and the pornography panic / Janice Dickin -- Linguistic duality in broadcasting policy: a microcosm of Canada's constitutional politics / Marc Raboy -- Northern voices and mediating structures: First Peoples' television broadcasting north of 60 / Lorna Roth -- The ravelled sleeve: advertising policy in Canada / Stephen Kline and Catherine Murray -- The Gutenberg revolution of television: speculation on the impact of new technologies / Mark Starowicz -- Extinction revisited: culture and class in Canada / John Meisel -- News for whom? Hegemony and monopoly versus democracy in Canadian media / Robert Hackett, Richard Pinet, and Myles Ruggles -- The decline of the daily newspaper / Gillian Steward -- The mandate, structure, and financing of the CBC / Colin Hoskins and Stuart McFadyen -- Private television: the villain of the piece seen in a new light / Peter Desbarats -- Putting the "public" in public broadcasting: a question of means / Ross A. Eaman.