A ‘National Celebration of Books’
When Publishing Perspectives reported on the announcement of PBS’ The Great American Read program—a combination of roadshow television series and reader-vote interaction—we noted that there appeared to be key distinctions between it and the annual Canada Reads program.
With the release Friday (April 20) of the 100 titles the Stateside program is has listed in its “new PBS series and multi-platform initiative that celebrates the joy of reading and the books we love,” it become apparent just how deeply different the two approaches are.
The 17-year-old annual Canada Reads from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) selects five contemporary works, each “defended” by a celebrity personality in four deeply serious, issue-driven debates seen and heard on a variety of platforms in a single week in March. It’s a powerful evocation of how forcefully literature can help reflect and enrich a nation’s political and cultural dialogue.
By contrast, the new US show is positioned as a “nationwide summer reading initiative” to choose “America’s best-loved novel” and in press materials dubs itself “the most expansive national celebration of books and reading aimed at engaging multi-generational readers across platforms ever created.”
And now that we can see the 100 titles put forward for the American show, it’s clear that there’s little comparison with the Canadian effort. The program is being produced for PBS by Nutopia, the documentary-led production company founded by Jane Root, formerly president of Discovery Channel US.
Canada Reads searches for what its producers call “the title the whole country should read this year.”
By contrast, The Great American Read, looking for a “best-loved” standout, might be positioned as saying, “Read anything, absolutely anything, just read.” You have Crime and Punishment and Fifty Shades of Grey on the same list; The Da Vinci Code and The Grape of Wrath; Siddartha and I, Alex Cross. The Canadian effort is advisory, the American one is populist.
The television aspect of The Great American Read involves a two-hour opening show to air on May 22 on PBS affiliate stations, then, after summer tapings of “entertaining and informative documentary segments,” the show returns in the fall for six one-hour episodes led by NBC News correspondent Meredith Vieira, formerly of The View and Today and the syndicated edition in the States of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
The audience-engagement element already has begun, in a sense, in that PBS’s media materials tell us that its 100 titles were chosen in “a demographically representative national survey,” a public opinion poll said to have been answered by some 7,200 people and conducted by YouGov. That’s a ratings site followed by some for its President Trump Daily Job Approval ranking and featuring, at this writing, the article “Most Americans Are Not Concerned About How Their Daily Lives Affect the Environment” for Earth Day.
In a prepared statement, PBS’ president and CEO Paula Kerger is quoted, saying, “With The Great American Read, we will leverage our combined broadcast and digital presence, along with the strong local connections of PBS member stations, to inspire a national conversation about beloved books and the power of reading.”
The List of 100 Titles
The 100 titles are by authors from 15 countries, and cover five centuries of writings, from Cervantes’ 1603 Don Quixote to the National Book Award finalist Ghost by Jason Reynolds, a 2016 children’s book. An author can be represented in the list only once, and a series counts as a single entry.
Many local affiliates are expected to engage their community viewers in events on the ground, as social-media efforts carry on, online. Voting at the show’s site will ultimately establish what the program will call “America’s best-loved novel” in the autumn.
The list of 100 titles follows, and more about them is on the program’s website here.
- 1984
- Hatchet
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- Heart of Darkness
- A Game of Thrones
- The Help
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- A Separate Peace
- The Hunger Games
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The Intuitionist
- The Alchemis
- Invisible Man
- Alex Cross Mysteries
- Jane Eyre
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- The Joy Luck Club
- Americanah
- Jurassic Park
- And Then There Were None
- Left Behind
- Anne of Green Gables
- The Little Prince
- Another Country
- Little Women
- Atlas Shrugged
- Lonesome Dove
- Beloved
- Looking for Alaska
- Bless Me, Ultima
- The Lord of the Rings
- The Book Thief
- The Lovely Bones
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- The Martian
- The Call of the Wild
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Catch-22
- Mind Invaders
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Moby-Dick
- Charlotte’s Web
- The Notebook
- The Chronicles of Narnia
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- Outlander
- The Coldest Winter Ever
- The Outsiders
- The Color Purple
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Pilgrim’s Progress
- Crime and Punishment
- The Pillars of the Earth
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Da Vinci Code
- Ready Player One
- Don Quixote
- Rebecca
- Doña Barbara
- The Shack
- Dune
- Siddhartha
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- The Sirens of Titan
- Flowers in the Attic
- The Stand
- Foundation
- The Sun Also Rises
- Frankenstein
- Swan Song
- Ghost
- Tales of the City
- Gilead
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- The Giver
- Things Fall Apart
- The Godfather
- This Present Darkness
- Gone Girl
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Gone with the Wind
- Twilight
- The Grapes of Wrath
- War and Peace
- Great Expectations
- Watchers
- The Great Gatsby
- The Wheel of Time
- Gulliver’s Travels
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- White Teeth
- Harry Potter
- Wuthering Heights
下面列出了100個標題，更多關於它們的內容在這個程序的網站上。
1984年
斧頭
Dunces聯盟
黑暗之心
權力的遊戲
幫助
為Owen Meany禱告
銀河系漫遊指南
獨立的和平
飢餓遊戲
一棵樹在布魯克林長大
尋找紅十月
湯姆索亞歷險記
直覺主義者
Alchemis
隱形人
亞歷克斯十字奧秘
簡愛
愛麗絲夢遊仙境
喜福會
Americanah
侏羅紀公園
然後那裡沒有
被留下來
綠山牆的安妮
小王子
另一個國家
小女人
阿特拉斯聳聳肩
寂寞的鴿子
心愛
尋找阿拉斯加
祝福我，Ultima
指環王
偷書賊
可愛的骨頭
奧斯卡Wao的簡樸生活
火星人
野性的呼喚
藝伎回憶錄
22條軍規
心靈侵略者
麥田裡的守望者
白鯨
夏洛特的網絡
筆記本
納尼亞傳奇
百年孤獨
洞熊的氏族
局外人
最冷的冬天
外來者
紫色
道林格雷的圖片
基督山伯爵
朝聖者的進步
犯罪與懲罰
地球的支柱
在夜間狗的好奇事件
傲慢與偏見
達芬奇密碼
準備好玩家一
唐吉訶德
麗貝卡
多納芭芭拉
窩棚
沙丘
悉達多
五十度灰
泰坦的警笛
在閣樓上的花
展台
基礎
太陽也升起
科學怪人
絕唱
鬼
城市的故事
吉利德
他們的眼睛看著上帝
送禮者
事情分開
教父
這個現在的黑暗
消失的愛人
殺死一隻知更鳥
隨風而逝
暮
憤怒的葡萄
戰爭與和平
偉大的期望
看守
了不起的蓋茨比
時間之輪
格列佛遊記
紅蕨生長的地方
婢女的故事
潔白的牙齒
哈利波特
呼嘯山莊
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'全國書籍慶典'
當出版透視報導了PBS公佈的“偉大的美國閱讀計劃” - 路演電視系列節目和讀者投票互動的組合 - 時，我們注意到它與加拿大年度閱讀計劃之間似乎存在著重要區別。
隨著美國太平洋計劃在周五（4月20日）發布的100款遊戲在其“新PBS系列和多平台計劃”中列出，該計劃旨在慶祝閱讀和我們喜愛的書籍的喜悅，它顯而易見的是，兩種方法是。
加拿大廣播公司（CBC）17歲的年度加拿大讀者選擇了五部當代作品，每部作品都受到名人個性的“捍衛”，在四個嚴肅的，以問題為動力的辯論中， 3月份的一周。這是強有力的文學如何有助於反映和豐富國家政治和文化對話的強大動力。
相比之下，新的美國節目被定位為選擇“美國最受喜愛的小說”的“全國性夏季閱讀計劃”，並且在新聞素材中稱自己是“全國范圍內最廣泛的書籍和閱讀慶祝活動，旨在吸引多代讀者平台創造。“
而現在我們可以看到為美國節目提出的100個冠軍頭銜，很顯然與加拿大的努力沒有太大的比較。該節目由Nutopia公司製作，該公司由前美國探索頻道總裁Jane Root創立的紀錄片製作公司。
加拿大閱讀搜索生產者稱之為“全國今年應該閱讀的標題”。
相比之下，尋找“最受喜愛”的傑出美國人閱讀可能會被定位為“閱讀任何東西，絕對是任何東西，只是閱讀”。你在同一份名單上有犯罪和懲罰和五十灰色陰影;達芬奇密碼和憤怒的葡萄; Siddartha和我，Alex Cross。加拿大的努力是諮詢性的，美國人是民粹主義者。
The Great American Read的電視方麵包括5月22日在PBS加盟電視台播出的兩小時的開幕節目，然後在夏天拍攝“娛樂性和信息豐富的紀錄片段”後，該節目將在秋季返回六個一小時由美國全國廣播公司新聞記者梅雷迪思維埃拉率領的劇集，該劇前身為“觀景與今日”以及美國誰想成為百萬富翁的聯合版本。
從某種意義上講，觀眾參與因素已經開始，因為PBS的媒體資料告訴我們，它的100個標題是在“具有人口統計學特徵的全國性調查中”選出的，一項民意調查顯示已有大約7,200人回答並進行了由YouGov。這是一個評級網站，隨後是其總統特朗普日常工作批准排名的一部分，並在撰寫本文時提及文章“大多數美國人不關心他們的日常生活如何影響環境”。
在一份準備好的聲明中，PBS的總裁兼首席執行官Paula Kerger被引述說：“憑藉Great American Read，我們將利用我們的廣播和數字組合廣播以及PBS成員電台的強大本地連接來激發全國性對話關於心愛的書籍和閱讀的力量。“
100個標題的列表
這100本書由15個國家的作者撰寫，涵蓋了5個世紀的著作，從塞萬提斯的1603年堂吉訶德到2016年兒童讀物傑森雷諾茲的國家圖書獎入圍作品幽靈。一個作者只能在列表中出現一次，而一個作品可以作為一個單獨的條目。
隨著社交媒體的努力在網上進行，預計會有許多當地的分支機構參與其實地活動的社區觀眾。在節目的網站上投票最終將確定該節目在秋季將被稱為“美國最受歡迎的小說”。
We're so excited to announce that many Vintage/Anchor Books will be a part of PBS' The Great American Read PBS, which was just announced this week! The Great American Read is an eight-part series designed to spark a national conversation about reading and 100 “books that have inspired, moved, and shaped us.”
Tune into the series premiere on May 22! Find out more at pbs.org/greatamericanread
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