Plateaus of Freedom : : Nationality, Culture, and State Security in Canada, 1940-1960 / / Mark Kristmanson.
'Canadians are not accustomed to thinking of censorship, secret intelligence, and propaganda as a single entity. Much less do they consider that these covertly militaristic activities have anything to do with culture.' So writes Mark Krismanson in this important study of the intertwining a...
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Kristmanson, Mark, author. Plateaus of Freedom : Nationality, Culture, and State Security in Canada, 1940-1960 / Mark Kristmanson. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016] ©2002 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Canadian Social History Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Characterizations of Tracy Philipps -- 2. Love Your Neighbour: The RCMP and the National Film Board, 1948-1953 -- 3. Remembering To Forget -- 4. State Security and Cultural Administration: The Case of Peter Dwyer -- 5. Pulp History: Repossessing the Gouzenko Myth -- 6. 'I Came To Sing': Paul Robeson on the Border -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 'Canadians are not accustomed to thinking of censorship, secret intelligence, and propaganda as a single entity. Much less do they consider that these covertly militaristic activities have anything to do with culture.' So writes Mark Krismanson in this important study of the intertwining activities and careers of those involved in Canada's security agencies and in the state-sanctioned culture industry during the delight of the Cold War. The connections between secret intelligence and culture might appear to be merely coincidental. Both the spies and the arts people worked with words, with symbols and hidden meanings, with ideas. They had regular informal luncheons together in Ottawa. Some members of the intelligence community even found careers in the arts. Less than a decade after defecting, the Russian Igor Gouzenko wrote a pulp fiction Cold War spy novel- for which he received a Governor General's award. And Peter Dwyer, Britain's top security official in North America during World War II, was a playwright who after the war worked in Canada's intelligence community before drafting the founding for the Canada Council and becoming its first director. But Plateaus of Freedom details much more than a casual relationship between security and the arts. As Kristmanson demonstrates, 'the censorship-intelligence-propaganda complex that proliferated in Canada after World War II played a counterpoint between national culture and state security, with the result that freedom, especially intellectual freedom, plateaued on the principle of nationality.' The security and cultural policy measures examined here, from the RCMP investigations at the National Film Board that led to numerous firings, to the harassment of the extraordinary African-American singer and Soviet sympathizer Paul Robeson, 'attest to the fragility and the enduring power of art to effect social change'. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Art and state Canada History 20th century. Cold War. Intelligence service Canada History 20th century. Internal security Canada History 20th century. Politics and culture Canada History 20th century. HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110667691 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9780195418033 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442623156 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442623156.jpg |
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