The document discusses the role of television fiction in nation building. It examines how television represents national identity through localization, language, cultural symbols, and history. It analyzes how the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network builds nationhood for Indigenous peoples in Canada through storytelling traditions, celebrating accomplishments, and issues of importance to Aboriginal communities. The network uses television to share culture, inspire children, and honor elders in a way that affirms First Nations identity and sovereignty.

1. http://www.wordle.net/. Images of Wordles are licensed Imagining and Building a Nation

2. Belonging Identity Social practice Class Race and Gender Constructivist approaches

3. National Ethnic Racial Contingent cultural creations

4. Benedict Anderson Courtesy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CentralAvenueCornell2.jpg Courtesy of: www.culcom.uio.no/english/news/2005/anderson.html

5. Imagined Community NATION Print publishing PRINT CAPITALISM Standardized language Common print language Anderson places the conception of ‘nation’ at the emergence of print publishing. Courtesy of: http://picturelibrary.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/visual-literacy/

6. Common print language The primary catalyst for transforming religious language, dynastic organization, and time consciousness willingness to die for their nation, rather than for an abstract ideology Courtesy of: http://www.heymancenter.org/ImageStorage/Img--00000263.jpg

7. How do we imagine a nation? Nationalism encourages good behaviour...

8. http://nform.ca/blog/2010/03/olympics-2010-and-user-experie-1 http://evolutionengineered.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/2010-olympic-gold-women.jpg

9. Imagined Communities…the work has been strongly criticized

10. Radhika Desai, Professor of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba http://umanitoba.academia.edu/RadhikaDesai

11. Neo-liberalism and its derivatives smoothed the path away from the rich traditions of theorizing politics, political economy and history, not to mention culture

12. EnriqCastelló,Researcher at the Public University of Tarragona, Catalonia Nation-building Role of fictional television Courtesy of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Universitat_Rovira_i_Virgili.jpg Courtesy of: http://wwwa.urv.cat/noticies/diari_digital/cgi/principal.pl?fitxer=noticies/noticia006965.htm

13. Castelló’sConstructivist Model decentralization of certain state competences, is essential to the current resurgence of western stateless nations. Castelló sees television as the primary link that people have to society at large Courtesy of: http://www.tvgasm.com/shows/images/ageoflove/season1/television.gif

14. WHICH mechanisms define the nation HOW organizational and political power work WHY fiction, as a text, is especially important

15. Signifiers of nation to enhance a view of nationhood Strong localized tradition To enhance independence Rather than succumb to American media dominance http://www.insidesocal.com/tv/Television%207.jpg

16. Nation building – 4 main ways Localization and territory Language Cultural representation Historical references

17. National realities Repetition of narratives and cultural symbolism in television fiction is a powerful generator of national realities

18. Localization and Territory In television shows, territory is represented through title presentations, via transitional shots between scenes, in outdoor scenes, and in characters. Courtesy of: http://thefilmjunkiespopcultureblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/canadian-famous.html

19. Language issues and uses Many nations use fictional television drama as a way to revitalize national interest in lesser-used languages

20. Cultural Representations and Social Values Social values and community reaction to daily struggle is entrenched in traditional social values

21. Historical Issues Traditional historical holidays incorporated into fictional programming to give context and placement to characters and settings.

22. National Culture Ordinary Normal

23. What makes the national identity banal? What does ‘Canada’ signify?

25. Television fiction is a cultural product that is created and consumed as a routine.

26. Can a ‘fiction’ a thousand times repeated be understood as a ‘fact’?

27. HomiBhabha nationality as a cultural construct power relations crucial Who is legitimated to tell the nation’s story we have to understand who tells the story, and how the story is told

28. PriyaJha, Christopher Gittings, and Hyangjin Lee

29. Jha - Production discourses Bollywood cinema “consolidated national identity” the contestation of nationalism and gender.

30. Ideological and Representational Dimension while the narrative appeared to hold place for women the melodrama of the song space erased women from the social order Discover how the CINEMATIC EXCESS of film may direct the spectator to read films as OPPOSITIONAL cultural practices.

31. Gittings – trajectory of the Mountie Literary Television Cinematicnarratives

32. The MOST commonly recognized signifier for CANADA Courtesy of: http://thefilmjunkiespopcultureblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/canadian-famous.html

33. Lee’s study: Contemporary Korean cinema Class Althusser Nationhood Gramsi Gender Issues Foucault Neo-Marxist Poststructuralist Postmodern Theories Address the significance of film as an ideological apparatus

34. National messages are encoded in media

35. Power of New Media technology Positive banal nationalism Recovering & restoring National stage Connections ‘Normalize’ and ‘Standardized’ Language History Traditions

36. Aboriginal People’s Television Network Established in 1999 To express Aboriginal culture First Nations standpoint

37. New means to communicate and connect with other indigenous groups

38. Aboriginal People’s Television Network APTN Mission “To SHARE our People’s journey, CELEBRATE our cultures, INSPIRE our children and HONOUR the wisdom of our Elders” Economic Impact With a 2007 operating budget of $26.5 MILLION, and a net income of $9.3 million, APTN’s ECONOMIC IMPACT on the Aboriginal production community and related Canadian media industry CANNOT BE UNDERSTATED.

39. Storytelling traditions Aboriginal concepts of hope, struggle, wholeness, history, healing, relationships, family and traditions

40. Celebration of accomplishments healing culture dance sports achievement survival Unity and diversity amongst Aboriginal peoples issues of fellow Indigenous people in other countries hopes, dreams and struggles

41. Castello’s 4 identifiers of nation building We look at these elements in light of Aboriginal Peoples Television Network

42. Four identifiers of nation building Localization and Territory Comedy series which details the life of a blended family in a Northern Alberta town Courtesy of: http://www.aptn.ca/series/id,39331760

43. Language Issues and Uses the move fromspoken language to print the role of modern mass media allowsfor many voices, speaking a variety of languages Voices of the Land explore the diversity and talent of independent Aboriginal documentary producers. The children’s show, Raven’s Tales is broadcast in four languages, English, French, Cree and Haida Courtesy of: http://www.aptn.ca/series/id,15163730

44. Cultural Representation & Social Issues Cashing In Your eye on the yukon Your Eye on the Yukon, “provides a window to Yukon First Nation culture and traditional values” Courtesy of : http://www.aptn.ca/series/id,20720631 Cashing In is a dramatic comedy series about casino life on a fictional Aboriginal reserve in southern Manitoba. Courtesy of: http://www.aptn.ca/series/id,29199150

45. Historical and institutional references Blackfly is set in a frontier fort in colonial Canada, and includes a mixed cast of Aboriginal, British, and Scottish characters. http://www.aptn.ca/series/id,44605217

46. Nation building is a story of representation - an autobiography as site of contestation where diverse political versions of the nation are debated WHO is telling the story and HOW

47. Nation building A nation needs its own fiction That is the end of our story…

48. Team 5 Darcie Davidson Robyn Yaredic Marie Chatterton Ryan Bartlett Pam Botterill Colleen Boyle Jean MacGregor

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