Expo 67 and its world : staging the nation in the crucible of globalization / edited by Craig Moyes and Steven Palmer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moyes, Craig, editor.

Palmer, Steven Paul, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau).

Globalization.

Québec--Montréal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (471 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Expo 67 and Its World brings together Québécois, Canadian, First Nations, and international scholars to propose a reappraisal of Expo 67 as an opportunity for collective re-imagining across a range of social spaces, from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance.

Contents:

Cover

Expo 67 and Its World

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization

1 Expo 67 and Its (Laurentian) World

2 Two Universal Endings: Architecture and Cinema at the New York and Montreal World's Fairs

3 "For We Have Waited a Hundred Thousand Years": The Indians of Canada Pavilion and Indigenous Curatorial Practices

4 Our Two Masks: Canadian Colonial Humanism and Indigenous Representation at Montreal's World Exhibition

5 The First Postcolonial World Exhibition: Revolutionary Cuba and the Black Atlantic at Expo 67

6 Innovation and the Prospect of the Post-National in the Architecture of Expo 67

7 Moving Image: Commissioned Quebec Cinema "à l'heure de l'Expo"

8 Here, There, and Everywhere: Youth Revolt in Quebec and Around the World

9 Glass/Screen, or Dialectics at a (Momentary) Standstill: Marcelle Ferron's Windows at the International Trade Centre/Expo Club

10 Staging Modern Medicine in Montreal: Anatomy of an Avant-Garde Pavilion

11 The New Brutalism and Design beyond Understanding at Expo 67

12 Secret Agents at Expo: The Case of Kommissar X

13 Earth, River, (Is)Land: The Foundations and Re-foundations of Expo 67

Epilogue: "A Legend for Generations to Come": Expo 67 in the Historical Memory of Contemporary Québécois

Appendix: Notes on Expo 67 Visitor Data

Tables and Figures

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Moyes, Craig Expo 67 and Its World

ISBN:

0-2280-1331-3

OCLC:

1287825203