Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956 (Canadian Modern)($42.00Value)

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Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956 examines the visual, material, and spatial presence of radio as it reshaped Canadian society in the second quarter of the twentieth century. Through an analysis of radio sets and advertisements, the authors explain how marketing and design were crucial to convincing Canadians to adopt this modern technology. They also discuss how new kinds of spaces were produced by radio, by tracing its intersecting networks of communication and commercialism, public and private places, material and imagined sites. Contains a series foreword by Michelangelo Sabatino and an introduction by Christine Macy. Anne MacLennan is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Studies at York University, Toronto. She is the author of “Resistance to Regulation: Early Canadian Broadcaster and Listeners,” in Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada (2010), and “Women, Radio and the Depression: A “Captive” Audience from Household Hints to Story Time and Serials” in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.Michael Windover is Assistant Professor of Art History, teaching in the History and Theory of Architecture Program in the School for Studies in Art and Culture at Carleton University, Ottawa. He is the author of Art Deco: A Mode of Mobility (2012)