Something New in the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)
Editorial Reviews
John D.H. Downing, director, Global Media Research Center, Southern Illinois University
"An excellent and extremely important book... It will be a leading and standard reference work on Northern media development."
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Book Description
After decades of distorted stereotyping by the media, Canada's First Peoples began to take control of their own image by creating a broadcast industry to transmit their own representations and perspectives. Something New in the Air charts the development of indigenous television broadcasting within the wider context of Canadian contemporary, multicultural society from the 1960s to the present.
Lorna Roth focuses on the regional, national, and global implications of Television Northern Canada and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), the only dedicated aboriginal television service in the world and available to every household in Canada with cable and satellite. She shows that by making their programming an integral part of the Canadian broadcasting infrastructure, First Peoples have succeeded in mediating their own historically ruptured pasts and creating a provocative model for media resistance. Concentrating on policy development, Roth explains how First Peoples in Canada have refashioned television broadcasting, indigenizing and transforming it into a tool for inter-community and national development. Something New in the Air valorizes the struggle of First Peoples to attain legislated recognition of their collective communications and cultural rights and shows how this struggle explains, in part, why they are now acknowledged as having the most advanced aboriginal broadcasting network in the world.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Something New in the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)
Something New in the Air: The Story of First Peoples Television Broadcasting in Canada (McGill-Queen's Native and Northern Series),Lorna Roth,McGill-Queen's University Press,0773528563,Performing Arts,Performing Arts/Dance,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Television - History & Criticism
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