Screen LibraryThe spaces and places of Canadian popular culture /
"How can we identify popular culture that is Canadian? This book aims to explore this question in consideration of the spaces and places of Canadian popular culture to make it more thinkable for students and scholars. The collection explores Canada's place within both the national and tran...
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Canadian Scholars,
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| Publisher Address: | Toronto : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"How can we identify popular culture that is Canadian? This book aims to explore this question in consideration of the spaces and places of Canadian popular culture to make it more thinkable for students and scholars. The collection explores Canada's place within both the national and transnational production of popular culture. The aim is to explore the role of identity (e.g., race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender) as it significantly affects the popular culture that emerges from a variety of Canadian geographies. As an interdisciplinary collection, the chapters will speak to the artifacts, music, film, podcasts, television, comic books, social media, video games, and other media that reflect the array of culture(s) that exist under the umbrella of Canadian popular culture. The 32 chapters bring together discussions of mainstream popular culture, for example, the importance of icons such as Drake and Tegan and Sara, the place of Aboriginal identity, considerations of the popular culture ubiquity of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The book also aims to uncover the significance of whiteness, absent nationalism, and class representations in media and popular television shows, such as Schitt's Creek."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxvi, 361 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781773381428 1773381423 |
| Index Number: | F1021 |
| CLC: | G171.1 |
| Call Number: | G171.1/S732 |
| Contents: |
"We weren't mean to be sing this music": Vag Halen's queer feminist covers / Defining and redefining Québécoic identity: Quebec cinema in the 21st century / Translocality and the articulation of a Jamaican/Canadian identity in the music of Michee Mee / Being Canada: Joe's rant, nationalism, whiteness, and the illusion of neutrality, then and now / Syrus Marcus Ware: #BlackLivesMatter, and "artivism" in Canada / Loving and loathing on Schitt's Creek: how representations of emotion, identities, and nation matter / Integrating black lives in education: black lives matter freedom school / A read on Canada Reads / Non/monogamies in Canadian children's picture books / "I'm a criminal ... it's all I know": comedy, crime, and critical thinking in Trailer Park Boys / From "one nation under gord" to #WeTheNorth: whose Canada peaked? / "This beautiful land we can all proudly call home": The Amazing Race Canada and the maintenance of national myths / Canadian popular culture and the many "faces" of TV formats / The boundaries of national cinema: international co-productions and Canadian film culture / The Canadian genre film as cultural commentary / Under the shadows of Hollywood: the politcal economy of Canadian cinema / Burying the past: indigeneity and the Canadian horror canon / The greatest Canadian superhero there never was: Kao-kuk "the Eskimo astronaut" / Sounds Canadian? familiar voices in an exaggerated Canada: exploring the sound world of Chilly Beach / Red, white, and grey: double double land un-defining Canadian popular culture / Playing Canadian: a brief history of tabletop games in Canada / Canadian indie video games: more than locations, landmarks, and loonies / Stereo/types: female DJs and the token/gimmick binary / The beat of culture: teaching Quebec culture through music / Ramping up Canadian disability culture / Canadian pop in the digital age: pioneering pathways to stardom and representation via Justin Bieber / Canadian crybabies: radical softness, feminized fan publics, and the politics of Carly Rae Jepsen / Gender matters at the centennial Calgary stampede parade / "Wanna hang out at the mall and catch a movie?": the disposability of the West Edmonton Mall Multiplex / The "funny" thing about food allergies ... in Canadian media culture / Consuming popular culture and politics in beer / Hockey invented Canada: Questioning the myths of manufactured nationalism / |