How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
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How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781897425602 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Athabasca University Press |
| Publication date: | 01/01/2010 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 369 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
Bart Beaty is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He has written and published extensively on cultural studies and issues in communication theory. Derek Briton is associate director of Athabasca University’s Centre for Integrated Studies. His research focuses on the psychoanalysis of society and culture, particularly the implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for teaching and learning. Gloria Filax teaches and coordinates the Equality/Social Justice stream in the MAIS program at Athabasca University. Her research interests include gender/sexuality studies, processes of racialization, disability studies, and other forms of normalization. Rebecca Sullivan is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. She specializes in feminist film and media studies.
Bart Beaty is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He has written and published extensively on cultural studies and issues in communication theory.
Derek Briton is Associate Director of Athabasca University’s Centre for Integrated Studies. His research focuses on the psychoanalysis of society and culture, particularly the implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for teaching and learning.
Gloria Filax teaches and coordinates the Equality/Social Justice stream in the MAIS program at Athabasca University. Her research interests include gender/sexuality studies, processes of racialization, disability studies, and other forms of normalization.
Rebecca Sullivan is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. She specializes in feminist film and media studies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword / David Taras
Introduction: Contexts of Popular Culture / Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan
1. A Future for Media Studies: Cultural Labour, Cultural Relations, Cultural Politics / Toby Miller
2. Log On, Goof Off, and Look Up: Facebook and the Rhythms of Canadian Internet Use / Ira Wagman
3. Hawkers and Public Space: Free Commuter Newspapers in Canada / Will Straw
4. Walking a Tightrope: The Global Cultural Economy of Canadian Television / Serra Tinic
5. Pedagogy of Popular Culture: “Doing” Canadian Popular Culture / Gloria Filax
6. Popular Genres in Quebec Cinema: The Strange Case of Horror in Film and Television / André Loiselle
7. Cosmopolitans and Hosers: Notes on Recent Developments in English-Canadian Cinema - Zoë Druick
8. From Genre to Genre: Image Transactions in Contemporary Canadian Art / Johanne Sloan
9. Controlling the Popular: Canadian Memory Institutions and Popular Culture / Frits Pannekoek, Mary Hemmings, and Helen Clarke
10. After the Spirit Sang: Aboriginal Canadians and Museum Policy in the New Millennium / Heather Devine
11. Producing the Canadian Female Athlete: Negotiating the Popular Logics of Sport and Citizenship / Michelle Helstein
12. Gothic Night in Canada: Global Hockey Realities and Ghostly National Imaginings / Patricia Hughes-Fuller
13. Vernacular Folk Song on Canadian Radio: Recovered, Constructed, and Suppressed Identities / E. David Gregory
14. The Virtual Expanses of Canadian Popular Culture / Derek Briton
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"The collection provides a fresh and engaging look at a munificent encompassing of Canadian popular culture, updating technologies, policies, and uses for 2010. It contribution to the field is precisely in its refreshing interrogation of a range of popular culture in Canada, and its intellegent discussions of the ways popular culture has been mediated by audiences, policies, and new forms of technological distribution."—Dr. Leslie Shade, Concordia University
The collection provides a fresh and engaging look at a munificent encompassing of Canadian popular culture, updating technologies, policies, and uses for 2010. It contribution to the field is precisely in its refreshing interrogation of a range of popular culture in Canada, and its intellegent discussions of the ways popular culture has been mediated by audiences, policies, and new forms of technological distribution.