How Canadians Communicate III:
Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
edited by Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, and Rebecca Sullivan
January 2010
Paperback
978-1-897425-59-6 (SC)
January 2010
eBook
978-1-897425-60-2 (ebook)
Subject
Canadian Studies / Cultural Studies / Media Studies / Technology
About the Book
What does Canadian popular culture say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian national identity? This third volume of How Canadians Communicate describes the negotiation of popular culture across terrains where national identity is built by producers and audiences, government and industry, history and geography, ethnicities and citizenships.
Canada does indeed have a popular culture distinct from other nations. How Canadians Communicate III gathers the country’s most inquisitive experts on Canadian popular culture to prove its thesis.
About the Editors
Bart Beaty is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He has written and published extensively on cultural studies and issues in communication theory.
Derek Briton is Associate Director of Athabasca University’s Centre for Integrated Studies. His research focuses on the psychoanalysis of society and culture, particularly the implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for teaching and learning.
Gloria Filax teaches and coordinates the Equality/Social Justice stream in the MAIS program at Athabasca University. Her research interests include gender/sexuality studies, processes of racialization, disability studies, and other forms of normalization.
Rebecca Sullivan is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. She specializes in feminist film and media studies.
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DownloadFront Matter
DownloadTable of Contents
DownloadAcknowledgements
DownloadForeword
David Taras
DownloadIntroduction
Contexts of Popular Culture
Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan
DownloadChapter 1. A Future for Media Studies
Cultural Labour, Cultural Relations, Cultural Politics
Toby Miller
DownloadChapter 2. Log On, Goof Off, and Look Up
Facebook and the Rhythms of Canadian Internet Use
Ira Wagman
DownloadChapter 3. Hawkers and Public Space
Free Commuter Newspapers in Canada
Will Straw
DownloadChapter 4. Walking a Tightrope
The Global Cultural Economy of Canadian Television
Serra Tinic
DownloadChapter 5. Pedagogy of Popular Culture
“Doing” Canadian Popular Culture
Gloria Filax
DownloadChapter 6. Popular Genres in Quebec Cinema
The Strange Case of Horror in Film and Television
André Loiselle
DownloadChapter 7. Cosmopolitans and Hosers
Notes on Recent Developments in English-Canadian Cinema
Zoë Druick
DownloadChapter 8. From Genre to Genre
Image Transactions in Contemporary Canadian Art
Johanne Sloan
DownloadChapter 9. Controlling the Popular
Canadian Memory Institutions and Popular Culture
Frits Pannekoek, Mary Hemmings, and Helen Clarke
DownloadChapter 10. After the Spirit Sang
Aboriginal Canadians and Museum Policy in the New Millennium
Heather Devine
DownloadChapter 11. Producing the Canadian Female Athlete
Negotiating the Popular Logics of Sport and Citizenship
Michelle Helstein
DownloadChapter 12. Gothic Night in Canada
Global Hockey Realities and Ghostly National Imaginings
Patricia Hughes-Fuller
DownloadChapter 13. Vernacular Folk Song on Canadian Radio
Recovered, Constructed, and Suppressed Identities
E. David Gregory
DownloadChapter 14. The Virtual Expanses of Canadian Popular Culture
Derek Briton
DownloadAbout the Contributors
DownloadIndex