Feeling Canadian

Marusya Bociurkiw received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia. She has published articles, essays, and reviews in academic, arts, and activist journals and books in Canada and the United States for the past twenty years. She is the author of four literary books, and her films and videos have screened at film festivals, art house cinemas, and universities around the world. She is currently an assistant professor of media theory and head of the Media Studies stream in the School of Radio and Television Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto.

• Feeling Canadian: Television, Nationalism, and Affect by Marusya BociurkiwAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Affect Theory: Becoming Nation2. The Televisual Archive and the Nation3. Whose Child Am I? The Quebec Referendum and the Language of Affect and the Body4. Haunted Absences: Reading Canada: A People's History5. An Otherness Barely Touched Upon: A Cooking Show, a Foreigner, a Turnip, and a Fish's Eye6. National Mania, Collective Melancholia: The Trudeau Funeral7. Homeland (In)Security: Roots and Displacement, from New York to Toronto to Salt Lake CityConclusion: Empty SuitcasesCoda: Fascinating Fascism: The 2010 OlympicsNotesWorks CitedFilmography

"Feeling Canadian is an invaluable contribution to the study of Canadian TV. It offers a rigorously theoretical and yet remarkably accessible way of thinking about how televisual representations produce feelings of nationalism. By bringing affect theory to television studies, Marusya Bociurkiw asks us to consider the feelings that television evokes in us. Drawing also on anecdotal theory, and providing anecdotes that most readers will be very familiar with, Bociurkiw's analysis situates us firmly within the context of our own uneasy, ambivalent, and sometimes embarrassing viewing pleasures." -- Michele Byers, Saint Mary's University, editor of Growing Up Degrassi: Television, Identity and Youth Cultures (2005) -- 201103