Desiring Canada : : CBC Contests, Hockey Violence and Other Stately Pleasures /

Desiring Canada : : CBC Contests, Hockey Violence and Other Stately Pleasures / / James Cosgrave, Patricia Cormack.

What do Tim Hortons, Hockey Night in Canada, and Rick Mercer have in common? Each is a popular symbol of Canadian identity, seen across the country – and beyond – on television and in other forms of media. But whose definition of ‘Canadian’ do they represent? What does it mean to be Canadian? Do we...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Cormack, Patricia,
Cosgrave, James ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]
©2012
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Contesting Canada at the CBC
  • 2 ‘Always Fresh, Always There’: Tim Hortons and the Consumer - Citizen
  • 3 ‘Our Game’: Hockey, Civilizing Projects, and Domestic Violence
  • 4 Peace, Order and Good Gambling
  • 5 The Funny State Apparatus
  • Conclusion: ‘Minding the Gap’
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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