We Interrupt This Program: Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture - Hardcover

Brady, Miranda J.; Kelly, John M.H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0774835087 ISBN 13: 9780774835084

Publisher: UBC Press, 2017

Synopsis

We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics in the realms of art, film, television, and journalism to rewrite Canada’s national narratives from Indigenous perspectives.

Miranda Brady and John Kelly showcase the diversity of these interventions by offering personal accounts and reflections on key moments – witnessing survivor testimonies at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, attending the opening night of the ImagineNative Film + Media Festival, and discussing representations of Indigenous people with artists such as Kent Monkman and Dana Claxton and with CBC journalist Duncan McCue. These scene-setting moments bring to life their argument that media tactics, as articulations of Indigenous sovereignty, have the power not only to effect change from within Canadian institutions and through established mediums but also to spark new forms of political and cultural expression in Indigenous communities and among Indigenous youth.

Theoretically sophisticated and eminently readable, We Interrupt This Program reveals how seemingly unrelated acts by Indigenous activists across Canada are decolonizing our cultural institutions from within, one intervention at a time.

About this title

About the Author

Miranda J. Brady is an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa. John M.H. Kelly is an adjunct research professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University.

Edition details

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0774835087
• ISBN 13: 9780774835084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220