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Author Cormack, Patricia

Title Desiring Canada : CBC contests, hockey violence and other stately pleasures / Patricia Cormack and James F. Cosgrave
Published Toronto [Ont.] ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2013 (Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013)

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages)
Contents 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'
Summary This lively, engaging book investigates the relationship between some of our more beloved popular expressions of national identity and the extent to which the interests of the state appeal to the pleasures of citizens, thus shaping our understanding of what it means to be Canadian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index
Notes English
Subject National characteristics, Canadian.
Group identity -- Canada
Pleasure -- Political aspects -- Canada
Pleasure -- Social aspects -- Canada
Popular culture -- Canada
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Group identity
National characteristics, Canadian
Pleasure -- Social aspects
Popular culture
SUBJECT Canada -- In popular culture
Subject Canada
Form Electronic book
Author Cosgrave, James F., 1959-
ISBN 9781442663299
1442663294