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Great Duty : Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture in Canada, 1939-1967 Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967.
English-Canadian cultural critics from across the political spectrum championed self-improvement, self-awareness, and lively engagement with one's surroundings, struggling to find a balance between the social benefits of democracy and modernization and what they considered the debilitating infl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal : Toronto :
McGill-Queen's University Press, Gibson Publishing Connections [distributor]
Jan. 2003 ;
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| Colección: | Carleton library series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | English-Canadian cultural critics from across the political spectrum championed self-improvement, self-awareness, and lively engagement with one's surroundings, struggling to find a balance between the social benefits of democracy and modernization and what they considered the debilitating influence of the accompanying mass culture. They used print and broadcast media in an attempt to convince Canadians that choosing wisely between varieties of culture was an expression of personal and national identity, making cultural nationalism in Canada a "middlebrow" project. As Kuffert argues, "if English Canadians are today more familiar with the ways in which modern life and mass culture envelop and define them, if they live in a nation where private citizens and cultural institutions view the media as avenues of entertainment, as businesses, or as the means to construct identity, they should be aware of the role of wartime and post-war cultural critics" in creating those orientations toward culture. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-341) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0773571388 9780773571389 |