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Media, culture and social change in Quebec : the story of Radio-Canada television in the fifties

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Media, culture and social change in Quebec : the story of Radio-Canada television in the fifties

Tigkos, Marie (1998) Media, culture and social change in Quebec : the story of Radio-Canada television in the fifties. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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In this thesis we aim to develop an account of the salient events and circumstances within which the medium of television in the form of the Radio-Canada television network in Quebec developed as a significant social institution and cultural form during the first decade of its existence. Concomitantly, we want to develop an account of television as an embodiment and carrier of capitalist modernity in Quebec, a modernity in which the cultural, political, public and domestic spheres were restructured to meet the demands and needs of the post-war era. Within this larger framework we shall examine the relationship between media and modernity in the first instance, and television's contribution to the democratization of public life and the reformulation of national culture and identity in the second. At the same time, we shall examine institutional developments within Radio-Canada television as well as the conditions that permitted the public broadcaster to create a distinctive and popular television culture.

Divisions:Concordia University > Faculty of Arts and Science > Communication Studies
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Tigkos, Marie
Pagination:iv, 274 leaves ; 29 cm.
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M.A.
Program:Dept. of Communication Studies
Date:1998
Thesis Supervisor(s):Buxton, William
Identification Number:HE 8700.79 C3T54 1998
ID Code:711
Deposited By: Concordia University Library
Deposited On:27 Aug 2009 17:13
Last Modified:13 Jul 2020 19:47
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