Celebrity cultures in Canada / Katja Lee and Lorraine York, editors ; Foreword by P. David Marshall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Katja, 1977- editor.

York, Lorraine Mary, 1958- editor.

Marshall, P. David, writer of foreword.

Series:

Cultural studies series.

Cultural Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Canada.

Popular culture.

Fame.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier : University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Celebrity Cultures in Canada is an interdisciplinary collection that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. The chapters address a variety of cultural venues-politics, sports, film, and literature-and examine the political, cultural, material, and affective conditions that shaped celebrity in Canada and its uses both at home and abroad. The scope of the book enables the authors to highlight the trends that characterize Canadian celebrity-such as transnationality and bureaucracy-and explore the regional, linguistic, administrative, and indigenous cultures and institutions that distinguish fame in Canada from fame elsewhere. In historicizing and theorizing Canada's complicated cultures of celebrity, Celebrity Cultures in Canada rejects the argument that nations are irrelevant in today's global celebrityscapes or that Canada lacks a credible or adequate system for producing, distributing, and consuming celebrity. Nation and national identities continue to matter-to celebrities, to fans, and to institutions and industries that manage and profit from celebrity systems-and Canada, this collection argues, has a vibrant, powerful, and often complicated and controversial relationship to fame.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Foreword: The Celebrity Nation

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Celebrity Cultures in Canada. It's Not a Question

1 Rediscovering Nell Shipman for Canadian Cultural Heritage

2 "What an elastic nationality she possesses!" Transnational Celebrity Identities in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

3 Terry Fox and Disabled Celebrity

4 Canadian Political Celebrity: From Trudeau to Trudeau

5 Celebrity and the Cultivation of Indigenous Publics in Canada

6 Lament for a Hockey Nation, Don Cherry, and the Apparatus of Canadian Celebrity

7 Bon Cop, Bad Cop: A Tale of Two Star Systems

8 Crossover Stars: Canadian Viewing Strategies and the Case of Callum Keith Rennie

9 What's So Funny about Canadian Expats? The Comedian as Celebrity Export

10 Re: Focusing (on) Celebrity: Canada's Major Poetry Prizes

11 Bureaucratic Celebrity

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 18, 2016).

ISBN:

9781771122245

1771122242

9781771122238

1771122234

OCLC:

936220335