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Charles Acland
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Research
Latest funding
- $37,406
McLuhan in New York
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $17,187
McLuhan in New York
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $2,046,124
Archive counter archive: activating Canada's moving image heritage
SSHRC · 2018 · Co-investigator
McLuhan in New York
Principal investigators: Acland, Charles R.
Keywords: discourses of technological society; popular culture; power; and social justice; Canadian intellectual history; history of media studies
McLuhan in New York
Principal investigators: Acland, Charles R.
Keywords: discourses of technological society; popular culture; power; and social justice; Canadian intellectual history; history of media studies
Archive counter archive: activating Canada's moving image heritage
Keywords: audiovisual archives; education; new digital interfaces; IP policy Canada
Archive counter archive: activating Canada's moving image heritage
Keywords: audiovisual archives; education; new digital interfaces; IP policy Canada
Project Arclight: analytics for the study of 20th century media
Principal investigators: Acland, Charles R.
Keywords: film and media studies; communication; history; computer science; library and information science
The blockbuster economy
Principal investigators: Acland, Charles R.
Keywords: contemporary cinema culture; technological innovation; cultural industries; digital cinema; global popular culture
Mass instruction and celluloid publics
Principal investigators: Acland, Charles R.
Keywords: media and cultural history; instructional film; history of new media; hierarchies of cultural value and authority; mass media and democracy; hegemony and organic intellectuals
Useful Cinema: Expanding Film Contexts on the history of film culture in everyday life
Principal investigators: Acland, Charles R.
Keywords: new technology; cultural history; everday life; visual culture; film exhibition
Hidden influences and subliminal messages: the popular career of a media critique
Principal investigators: Acland, Charles
Keywords: history of communication studies; popular culture; history of subliminal seduction; mass society; epistemology; discourse analysis; educational technology; representations of media manipulation in film; television; and popular literature
The formation of audiences, cinema-going and the space of motion picture theatres: film distribution and exhibition in Canada, 1986-1996
Principal investigators: Acland, Charles
Keywords: Cultural and media studies; culture industries; discourse analysis; audience studies; theories of space; nationhood and globalization
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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