Turn Up the Contrast

From Shakespeare to cop shows, sitcoms to docudramas, for over threedecades the CBC has presented viewers with every variety of televisiondrama and has become Canada's closest equivalent to a nationaltheatre. Turn Up the Contrast is the first book to explore the contentof Canadian television drama and is both a critical analysis and asurvey history of how Canadians have used the medium to tell themselvestheir own stories. As a part of her research, Mary Jane Miller watched thousands ofhours of television, sampling series and viewing in their entiretyshorter programs such as movies and mini-series. Asking a variety ofquestions, she selected a number of programs for detailed analysis, anddevotees of The Beachcombers, King of Kensington, Seeing Things,Cariboo Country, Wojeck or A Gift to Last will be pleased to find theirfavourites among those discussed at length. A University of British Columbia Press / CBC EnterprisesCo-Publication.