ISBN: 9780802078902 - constructing the quebec referendum: french and english media voices (heritage) (9 Ergebnisse)

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Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. First softcover edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 262 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Edges slightly foxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; Canada; 1980s; Politics & Government. ISBN: 0802078907. ISBN/EAN: 9780802078902. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: 31254. For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to reply within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right. …

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 262 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 1980 Quebec referendum was a momentous event that redefined Canada's nationalist ideologies. While the political implications of the referendum have been widely analysed, this is the first sustained study of the role played by the media in shaping and interpreting the referendum campaign. Robinson addresses interrelated issues in public opinion creation during the 1980 campaign. She explores how the ideologies of Quebec and Canadian nationalism were constructed and modified by the separate French and English networks, and how their idiosyncratic visual styles and thematic selections reinforced Montreal viewers' linguistic and political divisions. In addition, Robinson compares French and English media professionals and discovers how their work settings and their perception of their roles had become polarized a decade before through the imposition of the 1970 War Measures Act. The two journalistic groups were affected by its imposition in radically different ways, resulting in much more self-censorship and bland programming on the part of the French media than the English during the 1980 referendum. Finally, Robinson demonstrates how the instant playback capabilities of television, newly developed at the time of the referendum, have affected news discourses and turned electoral coverage into personalized and sensationalized 'tabloid formats.' These formats narrowed citizen's abilities to conceive of alternative political interpretations and actions.…