Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Local Cultures and Global Quests: Imagining the Nation in Canadian Broadcasting -- Chapter 2. Constructing the Global City: Contextualizing 'Hollywood North' -- Chapter 3. The Politics of 'Space' and 'Place': Mandating 'National' Identity in Canadian Media Policy -- Chapter 4. Going Global: The Disappearing Domestic Audience -- Chapter 5. Marginal Amusements: Television Comedy and the Salience of Place in the Canadian Sensibility -- Chapter 6. Regimes of Community in 'Hollywood North': Reproducing Local and Global Cultures in a Televisual World -- Appendix: Main Characteristics of an International City -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary
On Location fills a major gap in contemporary media and cultural studies debates that question the connections between the politics of place, culture, and commerce within the larger context of cultural globalization
