Zoë Druick
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zoë Druick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zoë |
| FAMILY NAME | Druick |
| SIGNATURE | DRUICK Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Re-framing Educational Technology
Operational Media
This article develops the concept of «operational media» to think through the deployment of utility/useful cinema in the context of cybernetically informed educational policy. The paper argues that cybernetic concepts of communication, feedback loops and homeostasis were central to the pragmatic installation of media at the center of postwar mass education. Links are made to the dominance of cybernetic ideas in postwar social science, including s…
International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
A Wide-Angle View of Fragile Earth”
Taking the widely viewed media work of French filmmaker and environmentalist Yann Arthus- Bertrand’s as its subject, this essay posits that despite the filmmaker’s stated ecological and humanist position, the formalist strategies he employs-particularly the fly-over and the database-bring with them a set of historical conventions that paradoxically import capitalist and imperialist ideologies and phenomenologies. In particular, the article consid…
Property TV
This article argues that melodrama plays an important role in shaping the ambivalent narratives of property TV. Using the HGTV Canada show Buy Herself as a case study, the article considers the rise of what amounts to a new women’s genre as an attempt to frame and contain gendered experiences of the financialization of the domestic sphere. Positioning the show within neoliberalism’s faux feminism and superficial discourse of diversity, the articl…
Haunted houses
This special issue includes six essays that consider the gendered dimensions of property television in the UK, Canada and the US as they have emerged since the financial crises of 2008
Small Effects from Big Causes
In her digital video work Mass Ornament (2009), the Testament series (2009), and Now He's Out in Public and Everyone Can See (2012), US artist Natalie Bookchin gathers clips from video blogs in which people perform dances and discuss personal and political issues, from sexuality to racism to losing their jobs. In this essay, I argue that Bookchin's work makes an important feminist intervention into discourses that either demonize or lionize socia…
Cultural Production in Canada
Cinephemera
Grierson Effect
Grierson in Canada
Sex Money Media
Allan King's A Married Couple
Long before 'Reality TV,' Canadian filmmaker Allan King caused a stir by mixing people's private and public lives in his 1969 documentary A Married Couple. This observational cinema piece, which took an unscripted look at the urban Edwards family, was deemed too contentious to air by commissioning network CTV on the grounds of excessive nudity and obscenity. Nevertheless, the documentary was accepted by the Cannes festival, and it is now cited as…
Participatory Media
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Dialogic Absurdity
This article examines the popular phenomenon of news parodies using the concept of genre. While genre is often used as a category of industrial production and marketing, the author argues that Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of genre as a socially embedded aesthetic form allows us to understand the proliferation of news parodies as a commentary on the social authority of the news. Comparing examples from Canada, the UK, and the United States, the articl…
Television Truths
Programming Reality
The courtroom and the closet in The Thin Blue Line and Capturing the Friedmans
In this essay, I argue that The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988) and Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003) are compelling explorations of both the knowledge – and the ignorance – produced by the existence of what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick calls ‘the epistemology of the closet’ (1990), the structuring principle at the heart of homophobic culture. Ostensibly focused on wrongful conviction, the films both use a proliferation of signification…
Projecting Canada
The National Film Board of Canada, now in its seventh decade, is internationally acclaimed as a beacon of non-commercial filmmaking. In Projecting Canada Zoë Druick shows that the NFB, born out of a nation-building project, continues to be inextricably involved in the crises of nation, technology, and social scientific knowledge that shape the Canadian cultural landscape
Remedy and Remediation
International Cultural Relations as a Factor in Postwar Canadian Cultural Policy
The Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences (The Massey Commission, 1949-1951) is widely seen to be Canada’s most important position paper on national cultural policy. This article explores the relation of this significant document to UNESCO and its characteristic discourse of “cultural relations.” Not only did UNESCO appear in the terms of reference for the Massey Commission Report, but it also was a repeated t…
Dialogic Absurdity
This article examines the popular phenomenon of news parodies using the concept of genre. While genre is often used as a category of industrial production and marketing, the author argues that Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of genre as a socially embedded aesthetic form allows us to understand the proliferation of news parodies as a commentary on the social authority of the news. Comparing examples from Canada, the UK, and the United States, the articl…
Haunted houses
This special issue includes six essays that consider the gendered dimensions of property television in the UK, Canada and the US as they have emerged since the financial crises of 2008
Television Truths
International Cultural Relations as a Factor in Postwar Canadian Cultural Policy
The Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences (The Massey Commission, 1949-1951) is widely seen to be Canada’s most important position paper on national cultural policy. This article explores the relation of this significant document to UNESCO and its characteristic discourse of “cultural relations.” Not only did UNESCO appear in the terms of reference for the Massey Commission Report, but it also was a repeated t…
Projecting Canada
The National Film Board of Canada, now in its seventh decade, is internationally acclaimed as a beacon of non-commercial filmmaking. In Projecting Canada Zoë Druick shows that the NFB, born out of a nation-building project, continues to be inextricably involved in the crises of nation, technology, and social scientific knowledge that shape the Canadian cultural landscape
Remedy and Remediation
Programming Reality
The courtroom and the closet in The Thin Blue Line and Capturing the Friedmans
In this essay, I argue that The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988) and Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003) are compelling explorations of both the knowledge – and the ignorance – produced by the existence of what Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick calls ‘the epistemology of the closet’ (1990), the structuring principle at the heart of homophobic culture. Ostensibly focused on wrongful conviction, the films both use a proliferation of signification…
Dialogic Absurdity
This article examines the popular phenomenon of news parodies using the concept of genre. While genre is often used as a category of industrial production and marketing, the author argues that Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of genre as a socially embedded aesthetic form allows us to understand the proliferation of news parodies as a commentary on the social authority of the news. Comparing examples from Canada, the UK, and the United States, the articl…
Television Truths
Allan King's A Married Couple
Long before 'Reality TV,' Canadian filmmaker Allan King caused a stir by mixing people's private and public lives in his 1969 documentary A Married Couple. This observational cinema piece, which took an unscripted look at the urban Edwards family, was deemed too contentious to air by commissioning network CTV on the grounds of excessive nudity and obscenity. Nevertheless, the documentary was accepted by the Cannes festival, and it is now cited as…
Participatory Media
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Sex Money Media
Cinephemera
Grierson Effect
Grierson in Canada
Cultural Production in Canada
Small Effects from Big Causes
In her digital video work Mass Ornament (2009), the Testament series (2009), and Now He's Out in Public and Everyone Can See (2012), US artist Natalie Bookchin gathers clips from video blogs in which people perform dances and discuss personal and political issues, from sexuality to racism to losing their jobs. In this essay, I argue that Bookchin's work makes an important feminist intervention into discourses that either demonize or lionize socia…
Property TV
This article argues that melodrama plays an important role in shaping the ambivalent narratives of property TV. Using the HGTV Canada show Buy Herself as a case study, the article considers the rise of what amounts to a new women’s genre as an attempt to frame and contain gendered experiences of the financialization of the domestic sphere. Positioning the show within neoliberalism’s faux feminism and superficial discourse of diversity, the articl…
Haunted houses
This special issue includes six essays that consider the gendered dimensions of property television in the UK, Canada and the US as they have emerged since the financial crises of 2008
A Wide-Angle View of Fragile Earth”
Taking the widely viewed media work of French filmmaker and environmentalist Yann Arthus- Bertrand’s as its subject, this essay posits that despite the filmmaker’s stated ecological and humanist position, the formalist strategies he employs-particularly the fly-over and the database-bring with them a set of historical conventions that paradoxically import capitalist and imperialist ideologies and phenomenologies. In particular, the article consid…
Operational Media
This article develops the concept of «operational media» to think through the deployment of utility/useful cinema in the context of cybernetically informed educational policy. The paper argues that cybernetic concepts of communication, feedback loops and homeostasis were central to the pragmatic installation of media at the center of postwar mass education. Links are made to the dominance of cybernetic ideas in postwar social science, including s…
International Organizations and the Media in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Re-framing Educational Technology
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)