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Canadian content : culture and the quest for nationhood /

Canadian Content looks at Canada as an ongoing postcolonial process of not one but a series of radically different nationhoods, each with its own valued but tentative set of cultural criteria for orchestrating and implementing a Canadian national experience.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Edwardson, Ryan, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a guide to Canadianization
  • Colony to nation: morality, modernity, and the nationalist use of culture
  • Culturing Canada: the Massey Commission and the broadcasting, film, and arts triumvirate
  • From institution to industry: mass media and state intervention, 1958-1966
  • Canadian content woes: cultural imbalance and undercurrents in the 1960s
  • Creating the peaceable kingdom: a new nationalist Canadian identity
  • Guaranteed culture: nationalism and the question of intervention
  • Saving Canada: Pierre Trudeau and the mobilization of culture
  • Littlest Hobos and Kings of Kensington: Canadian cultural melange in the 1970s
  • From citizens to consumers: cultural industrialism and the commodification of Canadian content
  • Canadianization in a time of globalization
  • Conclusion: building Canada: culture and the quest ofr nationhood.