scholarly journals Acting in the Name of Culture? The Participation of Organized Labour in the Canadian Broadcasting Policy Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Coles
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Production Sector ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Broadcasting Policy ◽  
Cultural Goals ◽  
Role Efficacy

The thesis examines the role, efficacy and influence of the five national English-language independent film and television production sector unions in the Canadian broadcasting policy network. While labour is typically classified as a civil society organization within policy networks studies, this thesis will examine the blanket applicability of this typology in analysing labour's engagement with issues that involve both their vested economic/industrial interests as well as broader social/cultural goals, using the unions' engagement with the issue of Canadian dramatic programming from 1998 to present as a case study.

scholarly journals Acting in the Name of Culture? The Participation of Organized Labour in the Canadian Broadcasting Policy Process

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Coles
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Production Sector ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Broadcasting Policy ◽  
Cultural Goals ◽  
Role Efficacy

The thesis examines the role, efficacy and influence of the five national English-language independent film and television production sector unions in the Canadian broadcasting policy network. While labour is typically classified as a civil society organization within policy networks studies, this thesis will examine the blanket applicability of this typology in analysing labour's engagement with issues that involve both their vested economic/industrial interests as well as broader social/cultural goals, using the unions' engagement with the issue of Canadian dramatic programming from 1998 to present as a case study.

scholarly journals Acting in the Name of Culture? Organized Labour Campaigns for Canadian Dramatic Programming

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda L. Coles
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Etude De Cas ◽  
Broadcasting Policy ◽  
Étude De Cas

Abstract: This article has two main objectives: to identify a link between organized labour representing English-language independent Canadian film and television production workers and developments in Canadian broadcasting policy, and to analyze the complex role of labour within the Canadian broadcasting policy network. The author uses union interventions around the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s 1999 Television Policy and the decline in Canadian dramatic programming as a case study to analyze the strategy and efficacy of labour’s involvement in the broadcasting policymaking process. She argues that labour’s adoption of a coalition framework, with the formation of the Coalition of Canadian Audio-visual Unions, has positively impacted labour’s power as policy actors in the Canadian broadcasting policy sphere. Résumé : Cet article a deux objectifs principaux : d’une part, identifier le lien qui existe entre les politiques sur la radiodiffusion canadienne et les syndicats qui représentent les travailleurs anglophones au Canada dans les secteurs de la production indépendante télévisuelle et cinématographique ; d’autre part, analyser le rôle complexe de la main-d’œuvre au sein du réseau d’action publique pour la radiodiffusion canadienne. L’auteur a recours à des interventions syndicales qui se rapportent à la Politique télévisuelle de 1999 du Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes ainsi qu’au déclin dans la production de programmation dramatique au Canada pour effectuer une étude de cas sur la stratégie et l’efficacité entourant la participation de la main-d’œuvre dans la formulation de politiques en radiodiffusion. L’auteur soutient que l’entente réalisée par la main-d’œuvre dans le dossier de la formation de la Coalition canadienne des syndicats de l’audiovisuel a eu un effet positif sur ses capacités à contribuer aux politiques de radiodiffusion canadienne.

Regional Scenes and Canadian Screens

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-200
Author(s):  
Darrell Varga
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Atlantic Canada ◽  
Aesthetic Design ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
The World ◽  
Iconic Status

This chapter situates the conditions of production, funding, and labor in Atlantic Canada along with the representations of culture and work (or the lack of work) on screen through an analysis of selected films notable either for their iconic status within the regional film scene or as vehicles through which the condition of labor and culture can be explored and illuminated. Film and television production in Atlantic Canada is a case study of what Toby Miller et al. have described as Global Hollywood (2008). Under this model, production is understood not by aesthetic design or cultural context but rather by the existence of subsidies and incentives developed in competition with other regions in Canada and throughout the world for the business of Hollywood. The films that are produced generally reflect the dominant ideological tendencies of Hollywood, though films may also express the potential for resistance—even if only partially articulated.

scholarly journals Policy Networks in Disaster Management: A Case Study of the Hebei Spirit Oil Spill

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-126
Author(s):  
Lee Hee Sun ◽  
Park Soon Ae
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
Response Network ◽  
Cooperative Partnership ◽  
The Government

Due to rapid social change, the government does not have enough resources to manage urgent situations such as natural disasters. Recently, research on cooperative disaster management systems has increased, making it possible to respond to disasters more effectively. A "policy network" model is utilized to analyze the relationships among actors, with a particular focus on actors' behavior and network structure. Key findings are as follows: First, the participants in a disaster response network include the government sector as mandated by law, and the nongovernmental sector, which represents various interest groups. Second, the interactions especially among government departments or among NGOs, are dynamic as participations frequently engage and work with each other. Interaction between other sectors, however, is relatively low. Third, the policy network tends to form conflict-ridden relationships with low credibility. The low level of credibility among other sectors created obstacles to cooperative partnership and can increase the costs of disaster management in the long term.

Beyond nostalgia for the Soviet past: Interpreting documentaries on Russian television

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Kalinina
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Symbolic Politics ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Soviet Film ◽  
Film Clips ◽  
Russian Media

The proliferation and recycling of Soviet popular culture and history is a central ingredient of post-Soviet film and television production, leading to accusations that the Russian media is nurturing nostalgia. Nostalgia can hardly account for the manifold uses of the Soviet past in contemporary Russian television programming. Nevertheless, in the aftermath of the Crimean annexation, it became evident that nostalgia for a strong empire with a ‘strong ruling hand’ was part of Putin’s symbolic politics for several years. Keeping these considerations in mind, this article investigates how nostalgia extends into the domain of television and becomes an element of symbolic politics, employing a case study of two documentaries produced during Putin’s presidency to focus the analysis. This study also examines how contemporary Russian television uses footage and film clips from the socialist period and witness testimonies to ‘dismantle’ popular myths.

Policy Networks and Advocacy Coalitions: Explaining Policy Change and Stability in UK Industrial Pollution Policy?

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Smith
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Advocacy Coalitions ◽  
Advocacy Coalition ◽  
The Uk

Policy network analysis (PNA) and the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) are relatively recent additions to the toolbox of policy analysis. The author explores the strengths and limitations of each through comparative application. The two frameworks are used to analyse policy change and stability in the UK industrial pollution sector over a period of more than twenty-five years. Innovations derived from policy-oriented learning generated in the 1970s were initially rejected before being implemented fourteen years later. The case study illustrates the limits of both theories. Change was not an open competition between advocates of different core policy beliefs. Nevertheless the ACF analysis of contrasting, broadly defined, beliefs can help explain some events beyond policy networks. Resource interdependencies in the policy network provide a good explanation for the stabilities exhibited in the case study. PNA can also explain why some actors were excluded from the policy process whereas others exercised decisionmaking and nondecisionmaking power. In combination, the more fundamental agency-oriented and structure-oriented emphases on beliefs and resources associated with the ACF and PNA, respectively, can enrich policy analysis.

Making of a Mangaka: Industrial Reflexivity and Shueisha’s Weekly Shônen Jump

2019 ◽  
pp. 152747641987213
Author(s):  
Bryan Hikari Hartzheim
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Professional Self

Behind-the-scenes disclosures, a staple of film and television production, have extended to the visible documentation of manga (comics) and anime (animation) production in Japanese media. This article examines manga “industrial reflexivity, using as a case study publisher Shueisha’s most popular periodical, the best-selling shônen (boys) manga magazine, Shûkan Shônen Jump ( Weekly Shônen Jump). Jump’s documentary-like portrayals of the manga production process have bled out from the magazine in “exclusive” footage that takes viewers on behind-the-scenes tours exploring Shueisha offices or mangaka ateliers to spill insider knowledge and industry secrets. This article argues that such disclosures are borne out of industrial survival as much as education and promotion. Jump’s professional self-reflexivity is an example of an old media brand attempting to fight for relevance in a shifting media environment through appeals to the legacy and ecosystem of the manga magazine format itself.

From Songfilms to Telecomics: Vallée Video and the New Market for Postwar Animation

Animation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-228
Author(s):  
Shawn VanCour ◽  
Chloe Patton
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Fluid Movement ◽  
Television Production ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Theatrical Film ◽  
Production Company ◽  
Television Market ◽  
Small Screen

From 1948–1952, Rudy Vallée, a successful performer whose career spanned radio, film, recorded music and stage entertainment, expanded his operations into the burgeoning US television market with the launch of his independent production company, Vallée Video. One of hundreds of forgotten companies that arose during this period to meet growing demand for programming content, Vallée Video offers an important case study for understanding animation workers’ role in postwar television production. Drawing on corporate records and films preserved in the Rudy Vallée Papers at California’s Thousand Oaks Library and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the authors’ analysis documents Vallée’s use of freelance artists and external animation houses for work ranging from camera effects for illustrated musical shorts to animated commercials and original cartoon series. These productions demonstrate the fluid movement of animation labor from theatrical film to small screen markets and participated in larger aesthetic shifts toward minimalist drawing styles and limited character animation that would soon dominate mid-20th century US television.

Assessment 360°: A Panoramic Framework for Assessing English Language Learners

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Lewis ◽  
Nancy Castilleja ◽  
Barbara J. Moore ◽  
Barbara Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
English Language Learners ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
English Language ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Many Sources

This issue describes the Assessment 360° process, which takes a panoramic approach to the language assessment process with school-age English Language Learners (ELLs). The Assessment 360° process guides clinicians to obtain information from many sources when gathering information about the child and his or her family. To illustrate the process, a bilingual fourth grade student whose native language (L1) is Spanish and who has been referred for a comprehensive language evaluation is presented. This case study features the assessment issues typically encountered by speech-language pathologists and introduces assessment through a panoramic lens. Recommendations specific to the case study are presented along with clinical implications for assessment practices with culturally and linguistically diverse student populations.

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