Beaver Bites Back?
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 1993
384 pages
978-0-7735-6429-9 (ISBN)
Description
Canadians have demonstrated a remarkable sense of unity about protection of their "cultural industries" during the continuing national debate over free trade. This study of the effect of American popular culture on Canada is therefore particularly relevant.
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David H. Flaherty | Frank E. Manning
The Beaver Bites Back?
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12/1993
McGill-Queen's University Press
€154.75
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Reversible Resistance: Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other
- PART ONE: COMMUNICATIONS AND CULTURAL PENETRATION
- 2 American Culture in a Changing World
- 3 Awakening from the National Broadcasting Dream: Rethinking Television Regulation for National Cultural Goals
- 4 Broadcasting and Canadian Culture: A Commentary
- 5 A Sweet Hope of Glory in My Soul: Television Evangelism in the United States and Canada
- 6 Inflecting the Formula: The First Seasons of Street Legal and L.A. Law
- PART TWO: AMERICAN SPORTS AND CANADIAN SOCIETY
- 7 Popular Cultures of Olympic Sport in Canada and the United States
- 8 Whose National Pastime? Baseball in Canadian Popular Culture
- 9 Ambivalence at the Fifty-five-Yard Line: Transformation and Resistance in Canadian Football
- PART THREE: STAGE, SCREEN, AND SOUNDTRACK
- 10 Mounties, Muggings, and Moose: Canadian Icons in a Landscape of American Violence
- 11 Syncretizing Sound: The Emergence of Canadian Popular Music
- 12 Our House, Their House: Canadian Cinema's Coming of Age
- 13 Wives, Whores, and Priests: Gender Relations and Narrative Voices in Two Quebecois Traditions
- PART FOUR: MERCHANDISING CULTURE
- 14 The Canadianization of an American Fair: The Case of Expo 86
- 15 Culture for Sale: American Dollars Preferred
- PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS
- 16 Made in America: The Problem of Mass Culture in Canada
- 17 American Popular Culture and the Canadian State: The Case of Pornography
- 18 American Popular Culture in Canada: Trends and Reflections
- Notes
- Index
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