Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect

by Marusya Bociurkiw

"My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian " How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of affect theory, Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect tracks the ways that ideas about the Canadian nation flow from screen to audience and then...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554582687
• ISBN13: 9781554582686
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.0"