{"product_id":"programming-reality-9781554580101","title":"Programming Reality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eProgramming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television\u003c\/i\u003e, the first anthology dedicated to analyses of Canadian television content, is a collection of original, interdisciplinary articles, combining textual analysis and political economy of communications. It explores the television that has thrived in the Canadian regulatory and cultural context: namely, programs that straddle the border between reality and fiction or even blur it. The conceptual basis of this collection is the hybrid nature of television fare: the widely theorized notion that all mediations of reality involve fiction in the form of narrative or symbolic shaping. Each of the contributions here is a reminder, too, of the significant relationship of television to nation building in Canada—to the imaginative work involved in thinking through the relations that constitute nations, citizens, and communities. The collection focuses on English-language Canadian television because the imperatives guiding its texts are markedly different from those pertaining to their French-lanugage counterparts. The collection, therefore, develops a nuance of perspective on the cultural and political economic specificities that inform the imaginative work of television production for English Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zoë Druick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48295511851259,"sku":"9781554580101","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781554580101.jpg?v=1772484771","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/programming-reality-9781554580101","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}