What Was Canada? Locating the Language of an Empty National Archive

Post-Jewish?: Theorizing the Emergence of Jewishness in Canadian Television

“…Comedic forms are marginalized in Canadian dramatic television, but comedies have long been spaces in which debates about ethnicity and identity have been paramount (Brook 2003;Lipsitz 1992;Marc 1997, Morreale 2003, and where ambivalent ethnic stereotypes have been produced (Alperin 1989;Gray 1995;Saper 1991). I also chose them because they explicitly highlight Jewishness in a way that has not been the norm in Canadian TV, and because they are new and accessible-which is an extremely complex issue in the study of Canadian TV (Byers 2007;Byers and Vanderburgh 2010;Miller 1992, n.d.;Tinic 2009). …”

“…For a discussion of problems with access and the public archiving of Canadian TV, including specific references to King, seeByers and VanderBurgh 2010. …”

“Missed Opportunity”: The Oversight of Canadian Children’s Media

“…5 Nor does much work address the presence of Canadian productions within the American television industry. the lack of scholarship in this area-not only regarding children's content, but in all genres of television-has been acknowledged by byers and Vanderburgh (2010), who state that the "migration/repurposing of Canadian content within American networks [has] been under-theorized" (p. 114).…”

“…this is connected to a much broader issue in Canadian television studies as a whole, the fact that there is no national archive of Canadian television at all-a situation that many scholars have previously noted (e.g., bociurkiw, 2011;Vanderburgh, 2012). It is surprising-given that Canada produces a lot of content, much of it publicly fundedthat there is no real mechanism for archiving the content produced by these funds (shade, 2012), nor is there any requirement to make these freely available to the public (byers & Vanderburgh, 2010). As byers (2012) points out, this is a kind of double jeopardy.…”

Global Formats and Canadian Television: The Case of Deal or No Deal

“…In an important sense, an anti-interpretive approach is necessary within the Canadian context largely because so few texts exist, a reflection of the poor state of the country's audiovisual archives (Byers & Vanderbergh, 2011). 8.…”