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Desiring Canada : CBC contests, hockey violence and other stately pleasures / Patricia Cormack and James F. Cosgrave.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cormack, Patricia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National characteristics, Canadian.
- Group identity--Canada.
- Group identity.
- Pleasure--Political aspects--Canada.
- Pleasure.
- Pleasure--Social aspects--Canada.
- Popular culture--Canada.
- Popular culture.
- Canada--In popular culture.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2013 (Beaconsfield, Quebec :
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This lively, engaging book investigates the relationship between some of our more beloved popular expressions of national identity and the extent to which the interests of the state appeal to the pleasures of citizens, thus shaping our understanding of what it means to be Canadian.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- 1 Contesting Canada at the CBC
- 2 'Always Fresh, Always There': Tim Hortons and the Consumer-Citizen
- 3 'Our Game': Hockey, Civilizing Projects, and Domestic Violence
- 4 Peace, Order and Good Gambling
- 5 The Funny State Apparatus
- Conclusion: 'Minding the Gap'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-240) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-6330-8
- 1-4426-6329-4
- OCLC:
- 841909776
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