The Beaver bites back? : American popular culture in Canada

Flaherty, David H. (Added Author). Manning, Frank E. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0773511199 (bound) :
ISBN: 0773511202 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: print
xxii, 356 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Reversible Resistance: Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other / Frank E. Manning -- 2. American Culture in a Changing World / Bernard Ostry -- 3. Awakening from the National Broadcasting Dream: Rethinking Television Regulation for National Cultural Goals / Bruce Feldthusen -- 4. Broadcasting and Canadian Culture: A Commentary / G. Stuart Adam -- 5. A Sweet Hope of Glory in My Soul: Television Evangelism in the United States and Canada / Andrew Lyons and Harriet Lyons -- 6. Inflecting the Formula: The First Seasons of Street Legal and L.A. Law / Mary Jane Miller -- 7. Popular Cultures of Olympic Sport in Canada and the United States / John J. MacAloon -- 8. Whose National Pastime? Baseball in Canadian Popular Culture / Robert Knight Barney -- 9. Ambivalence at the Fifty-five-Yard Line: Transformation and Resistance in Canadian Football / Robert A. Stebbins -- 10. Mounties, Muggings, and Moose: Canadian Icons in a Landscape of American Violence / Reid Gilbert -- 11. Syncretizing Sound: The Emergence of Canadian Popular Music / Michael Taft -- 12. Our House, Their House: Canadian Cinema's Coming of Age / Seth Feldman -- 13. Wives, Whores, and Priests: Gender Relations and Narrative Voices in Two Quebecois Traditions / Charline Poirier -- 14. The Canadianization of an American Fair: The Case of Expo 86 / Michael M. Ames -- 15. Culture for Sale: American Dollars Preferred / Geoffrey Wall -- 16. Made in America: The Problem of Mass Culture in Canada / Paul Rutherford -- 17. American Popular Culture and the Canadian State: The Case of Pornography / Thelma McCormack -- 18. American Popular Culture in Canada: Trends and Reflections / Andrew Wernick.