The Beaver bites back? : American popular culture in Canada / edited by David H. Flaherty and Frank E. Manning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flaherty, David H.

Manning, Frank E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Canada.

Popular culture.

Popular culture--United States.

Canada--Civilization--American influences.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributing authors explore three aspects of American culture: its transmission by means of print and broadcast media and through live events in sport, entertainment, religious evangelism, and other public productions; its influence on Canadian popular culture; and the variety of Canadian responses. They suggest that the Canadian version of American popular culture is far more than a copy. Instead, it is frequently a creative response - often parodic in tone and subversive in intent - that gives public expression to Canadian sentiment and sensibility and provides protection from, and resistance to, American domination. Ironically, it may be in responding to American culture that Canadian sovereignty finds its most meaningful and potent articulation. Specialists and scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, the contributors discuss a range of cultural forms and performances. Each example, while "made in Canada," is related to an American alternative but has a large Canadian audience. Taking a rich variety of perspectives on this complex relationship, The Beaver Bites Back? demands that Canadian popular culture be accorded its proper status. The contributors are G. Stuart Adam, Michael M. Ames, Robert Knight Barney, Seth Feldman, Bruce Feldhusen, David H. Flaherty, Reid Gilbert, Andrew Lyons, Harriet Lyons, John MacAloon, Frank E. Manning, Thelma McCormack, Mary Jane Miller, Bernard Ostry, Charline Poirier, Paul Rutherford, Robert A. Stebbins, Michael Taft, Geoffrey Wall, and Andrew Wernick.

Contents:

""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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""

""L""""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85663-4

9786612856631

0-7735-6429-2

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06716 hdl