Culture, Communication and National Identity - 9780802067722

Culture, Communication and National IdentityThe Case of Canadian Television\nAuthor(s): Richard Collins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802067722, 978-0802067722\nSynopsis\nThere can be no political sovereignty without culture sovereignty. So argued the CBC in 1985 in its evidence to the Caplan/Sauvageau Task Force on Broadcasting Policy. Richard Collins challenges this assumption. He argues in this study of nationalism and Canadian television policy that Canadas political sovereignty depends much less on Canadian content in television than has generally been accepted. His analysis focuses on television drama, at the centre of television policy in the 1980s.\n\n Collins questions the conventional image of Canada as a weak national entity undermined by its populations predilection for foreign television. Rather, he argues, Canada is held together, not by a shared repertoire of symbols, a national cu.