Celebrity Cultures in Canada /

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"Celebrity Cultures in Canada is an interdisciplinary collection that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. The chapters address a variety of cultural venues--politics, sports, film, and literature--and examine the poli...

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Other Authors: Lee, Katja, 1977- (Editor), York, Lorraine M. (Lorraine Mary), 1958- (Editor), Marshall, P. David (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ruhm
Massenmedien
Massenkultur
Berühmte Persönlichkeit
Popular culture.
Mass media > Social aspects.
Mass media and culture.
Fame > Social aspects.
Fame.
Celebrities in mass media.
Celebrities.
Renommee.
Renommee > Aspect social > Canada.
Medias > Aspect social > Canada.
Medias et culture.
Celebrites dans les medias.
Culture populaire > Canada.
Renommee > Canada.
Celebrites > Canada.
Popular culture > Canada.
Fame > Social aspects > Canada.
Mass media > Social aspects > Canada.
Celebrities > Canada.
Kanada
Canada.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Celebrity cultures in Canada: it's not a question / Katja Lee and Lorraine York
  • Rediscovering Nell Shipman for Canadian cultural heritage / Amy Shore
  • 'What an elastic nationality she possesses!': transnational celebrity identities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Katja Lee
  • Terry Fox and disabled celebrity / Valerie J. Millar
  • Canadian political celebrity: from Trudeau to Trudeau / Jennifer Bell
  • Celebrity and the cultivation of Indigenous publics in Canada / Lorraine York
  • Lament for a hockey nation, Don Cherry, and the apparatus of Canadian celebrity / Julie Rak
  • Bon cop, bad cop: a tale of two star systems / Liz Czach
  • Crossover stars: Canadian viewing strategies and the case of Callum Keith Rennie / Katherine Ann Roberts
  • What's so funny about Canadian expats?: the comedian as celebrity export / Danielle J. Deveau
  • Re: focusing (on) celebrity: Canada's major poetry prizes / Owen Percy
  • Bureaucratic celebrity / Ira Wagman.

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