1. COMN 3316/Television as Culture November 12, Lecture Slides

2. Agenda Formal definition of ◦Binaries ◦Icon Review of Television Studies (last week) Project Description Beginning our more in depth look at Nation & Television: Then Canada & Television Some introductory clips Beginning to think about a “history” of “Canadian Television” and “Canadian Identity”

3. Binaries ◦A analytical tool ◦Finding and using pairs for analysis ◦Finding and using powerful pairs to work through meaning structures ◦We are used to doing this through exercise of contrast and compare ◦We also often think about this in grammar of the subject/object ◦There are other binary relationships available for analysis and use for cultural analysis:  Figure/ground  Folds (as an example)  Using aesthetic themes (space, architecture)

5. ICON An image acquires a thickness around its use in culture This use includes a clear reference (example godhead) But also has folds – a cultural adaptability that can be expanded to accommodate new means (example kingship) This image can be used to transmit and address a complex of cultural values and thus also their connected performances This image often occupies more than one sensory realm

6. ICON This image is reducible to simple elements – yet is not reductionistic. This image may acquire words – yet words are not easily sufficient enough to define the image This image is often visual or able to be made visual This image has a recognized cultural currency This currency is able to be translated into varied forms, and cultural performances

7. ICON Barbie?

9. CBC iconography? 1982? - 1987- CBLT 1989 (CBC – CBWT) Vintage unclear 2000 to present (CBC) 2000 1997 to 2006 (and present ?) (CBC - CBOT)1997 to 2006

10. Television studies review November 5 lecture

11. Real/Not Real Boy in Striped Pajamas Missing news & presidential candidate Proudly She Marches Eyewitness Arrival

12. Real/Not Real Boy in Striped Pajamas Missing news & presidential candidate Proudly She Marches Eyewitness Arrival NFB / Becomes CFNB Which is absorbed by CBC eventually

13. CNFB On the Spot

14. Autobiography/Expo and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgIGqSTl GwA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgIGqSTl GwA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPkV6AfI hbA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPkV6AfI hbA&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nsxOB o7o4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nsxOB o7o4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96jCPO RxYM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96jCPO RxYM&feature=related

15. Perhaps familiar? CBC excerpts http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/08/30/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Pxe6g90ePb4 http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/08/30/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= Pxe6g90ePb4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpV4-JlwWt0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE6_9Bn7ID0&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhVGJXuBY88&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOZUKj51pOw&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6nlCWXNWFI&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH0fJ5dfoGw&feature=related