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Author Edwardson, Ryan, 1974-

Title Canadian content : culture and the quest for nationhood / Ryan Edwardson
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 360 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: a guide to Canadianization -- Colony to nation: morality, modernity, and the nationalist use of culture -- Culturing Canada: the Massey Commission and the broadcasting, film, and arts triumvirate -- From institution to industry: mass media and state intervention, 1958-1966 -- Canadian content woes: cultural imbalance and undercurrents in the 1960s -- Creating the peaceable kingdom: a new nationalist Canadian identity -- Guaranteed culture: nationalism and the question of intervention -- Saving Canada: Pierre Trudeau and the mobilization of culture -- Littlest Hobos and Kings of Kensington: Canadian cultural melange in the 1970s -- From citizens to consumers: cultural industrialism and the commodification of Canadian content -- Canadianization in a time of globalization -- Conclusion: building Canada: culture and the quest ofr nationhood
Summary Canadian Content looks at Canada as an ongoing postcolonial process of not one but a series of radically different nationhoods, each with its own valued but tentative set of cultural criteria for orchestrating and implementing a Canadian national experience
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-343) and index
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Subject Nationalism -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Cultural industries -- Government policy -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Cultural industries -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
HISTORY -- Canada -- Post-Confederation (1867- )
Cultural industries
Cultural policy
Nationalism
SUBJECT Canada -- Cultural policy -- History -- 20th century
Subject Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442687493
1442687495