Artificial Ice
Description
Artificial Ice explores how hockey has moved from popular pastime to commercial entertainment product, and one struggling to maintain its stature in the North American entertainment market. Contributors to Artificial Ice discuss the changing character of "major league" sports in North America, the strategic mistakes of the NHL in trying to enlarge its US presence, the importance of television to the economics of sports today, and the role of luxury sports facilities in the new "downtown" economy. The book highlights profound social and cultural changes within hockey, as well as in the global market for sporting spectacles.
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Persons
David Whitson is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He is co-author, with Richard Gruneau, of the widely acclaimed Hockey Night in Canada: Sport, Identities, and Cultural Politics (Garamond Press, 1993).
Richard Gruneau is a Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. In addition to co-authoring Hockey Night in Canada, he is the author of Class, Sports, and Social Development (University of Massachusetts Press, 1983).
Content
Foreword, Roy MacGregor
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Hockey in Contemporary Canadian Culture
1. Whose Sweater Is This? The Changing Meanings of Hockey in Quebec
Jean Harvey
2. Selective Memory in a Global Culture: Reconsidering Links between Youth, Hockey, and Canadian Identity
Brian Wilson
3. The Game of Whose Lives? Gender, Race, and Entitlement in Canada's "National" Game
Mary Louise Adams
4. Women's Hockey in Canada: After the "Gold Rush"
Julie Stevens
5. Hockey Canada and the Bodychecking Debate in Minor Hockey
Michael Robidoux and Pierre Trudel
6. Racialization and Hockey in Canada: From Personal Troubles to a Canadian Challenge
Robert Pitter
Part II: The Political Economy of Hockey
7. Playing with the Big Boys: Smaller Markets, Competitive Balance, and the Hope for a Championship Team
Mark Rosentraub
8. Hockey Night in the United States? The NHL, Major League Sports, and the Evolving Television/Media Marketplace
Robert Bellamy and Kelly Shultz
9. Expanding the Footprint? Questioning the NHL's Expansion and Relocation Strategy
Dan Mason
10. From Maple Leaf Gardens to the Air Canada Centre: The Downtown Entertainment Economy in "World Class" Toronto
John Hannigan
11. Have Skates, Will Travel: Canada, International Hockey, and the Changing Hockey Labour Market
Hart Cantelon
12. Globalization in Professional Sport: Comparisons and Contrasts between Hockey and European Football
Julian Ammirante
Contributors
Index