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Author: Michele Byers / Saint Mary's University

Youth, representation, and the contemporary history of Canadian TV

October 27, 2007 Michele Byers / Saint Mary's University Leave a comment

Canadian (over)production of teen TV says something about the role Canada plays in the global TV market, teaching us about the space where technological innovation and the production of national cultures and voices intersect.

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Durham County: “HBO can eat its heart out”

August 30, 2007 Michele Byers / Saint Mary's University 5 comments

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
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Durham County (2007) is a hybrid creature–exportable Canadian drama stripped of all national and cultural
markers and defying generic conventions. The six-episode series about a cop and a serial killer competes with the US specialty cable market and is grabbing both audience approval and critical acclaim.

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The Empty Archive: Canadian Television and the Erasure of History

June 29, 2007 Michele Byers / Saint Mary's University 6 comments

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Canadian television texts and the field of Canadian television studies appear to be enjoying a surge of development and visibility, but there is one major stumbling block to this work… there is no archive of Canadian television where materials could be made available to the public, scholarly or otherwise.

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I Lost my Wife to Facebook, and Other Myths that Might be True

May 4, 2007 Michele Byers / Saint Mary's University 8 comments

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Facebook anyone? Looking to the online community, Facebook, the author considers how nostalgia and irony simultaneously figure into this current trend.

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Little Mosque on the Prairie: The Life and Times of the CBC

February 23, 2007 Michele Byers / Saint Mary's University 5 comments

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
Little Mosque on the Prairie and a discussion of the success of the the CBC Canadian public broadcaster system.

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Post CSI-TV: The Ecstasies of Dexter

December 1, 2006 Michele Byers / Saint Mary's University 4 comments

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
How does Dexter compare with network-series CSI? The programs have similar themes and topics, but different in tones and humor, perhaps associated with network/non-network programming.

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Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
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New to Over*Flow: Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
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