Communicating in Canada's past : essays in media history / edited by Gene Allen and Daniel J. Robinson. - Toronto ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (vi, 328 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Catholic press: a challenge to the 'journalism of information' paradigm / Old media, new media, and competition: Canadian press and the emergence of radio news / Britishness, the BBC, and the birth of Canadian Public Broadcasting, 1928-1936 / 'The luxury of moderate use': Seagram and moderation advertising, 1934-1955 / Evelyn Dick, soap star: newspaper coverage of the torso murder case, 1946-1947 / Variety show as national identity: CBC television and Dominion Day celebrations, 1958-1980 / Politics? Fear not! The rise of The average superhero in the visual rhetoric of Bill Davis's 1971 election pamphlet / Whence and whither: the historiography of Canadian broadcasting / Recent trends in research on the history of the press in Quebec: towards a cultural history / Encounters with theory / Dominique Marquis -- Gene Allen -- Simon J. Potter -- Daniel J. Robinson -- Alison Jacques -- Matthew Hayday -- James Cairns -- Mary Vipond -- Fernande Roy -- Paul Rutherford.



9781442697003


Mass media and history--Canada.
Mass media--History.--Canada


Electronic Books.

P92 / .C666 2009