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Outside Looking In

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Widely sold abroad, Beachcombers and North of 60 are what many international audiences know about Canada. In Outside Looking In Mary Jane Miller traces the evolution of representations of First Nat...
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  • 15 July 2009
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Using recent scholarship in ethnography and popular culture, Miller throws light on both what these series present and what is missing, how various long-standing issues are raised and framed differently over time, and what new issues appear. She looks at narrative arc, characterization, dialogue, and theme as well as how inflections of familiar genres like family adventure, soap opera, situation comedy, and legal drama shape both the series and viewers' expectations. Miller discusses Radisson, Forest Rangers and other children's series in the 1960s and early 1970s, as well as Beachcombers, Spirit Bay, The Rez, and North of 60 - series whose complex characters created rewarding relationships while dealing with issues ranging from addiction to unemployment to the aftermath of the residential school system.
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Price: $37.95
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Series: McGill-Queen's Indigenous and Northern Studies
Publication Date: 15 July 2009
ISBN: 9780773578050
Format: eBook
BISACs: PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / General
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"Miller's accessible and engaging writing style opens Outside Looking In to a wide readership interested in the area of Aboriginal media and representation." Doris Baltruschat, School of Communication and Journalism, Carleton University
"An extremely important addition to the literature on television and First Nations people, that will appeal to the general reader - especially the rather large group of North of 60 fans." John Jackson, Centre for Broadcasting Studies, Concordia University
"The rigor of Miller's years of research provides substantial material for readers to reflect upon." Sandy Greer, University of Western Ontario



"The rigor of Miller's years of research provides substantial material for readers to reflect upon." Sandy Greer, University of Western Ontario

"An extremely important addition to the literature on television and First Nations people, that will appeal to the general reader - especially the rather large group of North of 60 fans." John Jackson, Centre for Broadcasting Studies, Concordia University

"Miller's accessible and engaging writing style opens Outside Looking In to a wide readership interested in the area of Aboriginal media and representation." Doris Baltruschat, School of Communication and Journalism, Carleton University
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.