AgendaAgenda
Formal definition of ◦ Binaries◦ Icon
Review of Television Studies (last week)Project Description
Beginning our more in depth look at Nation & Television: Then Canada & TelevisionSome introductory clipsBeginning to think about a “history” of “Canadian
Television” and “Canadian Identity”
BinariesBinaries
◦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)
ICONICON
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
ICONICON
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
CBC iconography?CBC iconography?
1982? - 1987- CBLT1989 (CBC – CBWT)Vintage unclear
2000 to present (CBC)
1997 to 2006 (and present ?) (CBC - CBOT)
Real/Not Real Real/Not Real
Boy in Striped Pajamas
Missing news & presidential candidate
Proudly She Marches
Eyewitness
Arrival
Real/Not Real Real/Not Real
Boy in Striped Pajamas
Missing news & presidential candidate
Proudly She Marches
Eyewitness
Arrival
NFB / Becomes CFNB
Which is absorbed byCBC eventually
Autobiography/Expo andAutobiography/Expo and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgIGqSTlGwA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPkV6AfIhbA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nsxOBo7o4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K96jCPORxYM&feature=related
Perhaps familiar? CBC excerptsPerhaps familiar? CBC excerpts
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