Contents
Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
1 Reversible Resistance: Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other
PART ONE: COMMUNICATIONS AND CULTURAL PENETRATION
2 American Culture in a Changing World
3 Awakening from the National Broadcasting Dream: Rethinking Television Regulation for National Cultural Goals
4 Broadcasting and Canadian Culture: A Commentary
5 A Sweet Hope of Glory in My Soul: Television Evangelism in the United States and Canada
6 Inflecting the Formula: The First Seasons of Street Legal and L.A. Law
PART TWO: AMERICAN SPORTS AND CANADIAN SOCIETY
7 Popular Cultures of Olympic Sport in Canada and the United States
8 Whose National Pastime? Baseball in Canadian Popular Culture
9 Ambivalence at the Fifty-five-Yard Line: Transformation and Resistance in Canadian Football
PART THREE: STAGE, SCREEN, AND SOUNDTRACK
10 Mounties, Muggings, and Moose: Canadian Icons in a Landscape of American Violence
11 Syncretizing Sound: The Emergence of Canadian Popular Music
12 Our House, Their House: Canadian Cinema's Coming of Age
13 Wives, Whores, and Priests: Gender Relations and Narrative Voices in Two Quebecois Traditions
PART FOUR: MERCHANDISING CULTURE
14 The Canadianization of an American Fair: The Case of Expo 86
15 Culture for Sale: American Dollars Preferred
PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS
16 Made in America: The Problem of Mass Culture in Canada
17 American Popular Culture and the Canadian State: The Case of Pornography
18 American Popular Culture in Canada: Trends and Reflections
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