A Participant’s History?”
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Manipulation of Oral History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11078746 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Teresa Iacobelli (North-West State Technical University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 331-348 |
| Publication date | 2011-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Oral History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0798 • E-ISSN: 1533-8592 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ohr/ohr099 |
| OpenAlex | W2137840677 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
“‘A Participant’s History?’: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the Manipulation of Oral History” is a critical examination of the CBC’s use of oral histories in its historical programming. ‘It examines two CBC productions on Canada’s military history: In Flanders’ Fields, a seventeen-part radio series on the First World War that aired from November 11, 1964 to March 7, 1965; and, The Valour and the Horror, a three-part television series on events of the Second World War that aired in 1992. This article shows how both projects manipulated oral history sources and engaged in “thesis-based” research in order to communicate or reinforce preconceived narratives of each war. A comparison of the unedited interview transcripts from the extensive interviews conducted with Canadian veterans for In Flanders’ Fields, and the subsequent edited material, reveals a pattern of a flawed research methodology that would be mirrored again during the making of The Valour and the Horror.
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |