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Mary Jane Miller
Department of Film Studies, Dramatic and Visual Arts

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Internet: mjmiller@spartan.ac.brocku.ca
SSHRC General Research Grants
- ($55,000.00) Research on "Makers and Decision Makers in CBC Television," 1991 - 1994.
- ($36,000.00) Representation of aboriginal peoples in Canadian television drama. [book III] An analysis of drama 1986-96 [book IV] - no titles for either yet. 1994-1997.
Other Publications
- "Archives from the Point of View of the Scholarly User: or If I Died and Went to a Platonic Archetype of a Sound and Moving Images Archive, This is What I'd Find," the Proceedings of Documents that Move and Speak, Audio Visual Archives in the New Information Age - An International Symposium, NAC, Ottawa, spring, 1990, published by K.G. Saur, Munich, 1992, pp. 253 - 257.
- "Breaking the Formula: Street Legal and L.A. Law as Characteristic Examples of Contrasting Canadian and American Television Series," chapter 6 in The Beaver Bites Back? American Popular Culture in Canada, eds. David Flaherty and Frank Manning, McGill Queens University Press, Montreal:1993, pp. 104-122.
Reviews
- Canadian Nationalism, Culture and Communications, Richard Collins, CTR, Fall 1993.
Public Activities and Recognition
- Special Award for Achievement in Scholarship in the Field presented by the Association of Canadian Radio and Television, June 1992.
- SSHRC Grant reviewed.
- Refereed two papers for Canadian Journal of Communication.
- Panellist for award for best paper in Theatre research in Canada.
- Made Honorary Life Member of ASCRT/AERTC, "for exceptional contribution ... to University research in the area of Canadian television particularly its theatre," June 2, 1993.
Paper Presentations
- "Four women -- makers and decision-makers in CBC television," Association for Research into Canadian Radio and Television/AERTC 1993
Papers Presented at Brock University
- "An Overview of the Presentation of Native peoples in four decades of CBC Television Drama," ASCRT/ACTH Joint session, May 1991.
- "Women in the Field of Television," Two Days of Canada Symposium, February 1993.