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Description
What does Canadian popular culture say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian national identity? This third volume of How Canadians Communicate describes the negotiation of popular culture across terrains where national identity is built by producers and audiences, government and industry, history and geography, ethnicities and citizenships.Canada does indeed have a popular culture distinct from other nations. How Canadians Communicate III gathers the country’s most inquisitive experts on Canadian popular culture to prove its thesis.
Contributor Notes
Bart Beaty is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He has written and published extensively on cultural studies and issues in communication theory. Derek Briton is associate director of Athabasca University’s Centre for Integrated Studies. His research focuses on the psychoanalysis of society and culture, particularly the implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for teaching and learning. Gloria Filax teaches and coordinates the Equality/Social Justice stream in the MAIS program at Athabasca University. Her research interests include gender/sexuality studies, processes of racialization, disability studies, and other forms of normalization. Rebecca Sullivan is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. She specializes in feminist film and media studies.
Editorial Review
“The book is well-conceived and the articles offer compelling reading and dynamic viewpoints that would make for a fine addition to Canadian Studies and popular culture courses. [Beaty and Sullivan] effectively demonstrate that popular culture can be a means of communication on a broader scale when context is taken into consideration. By setting the stage for the reader in their discussions of how popular culture should be considered, they are able to subtly remind the reader that context matters just as much as content.”
