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Serra Tinic - On Location: Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market - 9780802087379 - V9780802087379
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On Location: Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market

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Description for On Location: Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market hardcover. On Location fills a major gap in contemporary media and cultural studies debates that question the connections between the politics of place, culture, and commerce within the larger context of cultural globalization. Series: Cultural Spaces. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFD; KNTD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 425.

Film and television production are important components of the Canadian economy. In Vancouver, popular American television series like The X-Files and Canadian series like Da Vinci's Inquest have boosted the city's profile as a centre for international and domestic productions. Serra Tinic's On Location is the first empirical analysis of regional Canadian television producers in the context of developing global media markets.

Tinic observes that global television production in Vancouver has been a contradictory process that has, on one level, led to the homogenization of culturally specific storylines, while simultaneously facilitating the development of new avenues for international ventures. The ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Spaces
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802087379
SKU
V9780802087379
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Ref
99-1

About Serra Tinic
Serra Tinic is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

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