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SHOOTING COWBOYS traces the transformation of the cowboy image in Canada over a ninety-year period. An extensive selection of historical photographs from the Canadian west examines the photographer's role in creating and influencing the cultural myth of the cowboy. Brock Silversides has assembled some of the most fascinating and surprising images.

The text and photographs reveal how and why the archetypical cowboy images evolved, and how these images were used for postcards, tourist literature and souvenirs, magazine and book illustrations, and even for selling cattle. Included here are examples of documentary, promotional and journalistic photography - some honest, some idealized, some fabricated, but all extremely interesting. ... Read more

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Pop-Canuckisms for a modern culture...
Got this book when it first came out, expecting it to be 90% filler and 10% interesting.I was pleasantly suprised.

Pevere and Dymond did their homework... either that, or they've overdosed on Candian pop culturesince they were knee-high to grasshoppers.

I found myself chucklinglots as I flipped through the pages of the book, and occassionally laughedout loud, long and hard.With chapter titles such as "Space Oddity:How William Shatner Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Future" and"Porky's (the movie): Canada Pigs Out," the reader can be dazzled- and baffled - by the trivia, humour, and obscure facts'n'fallacies of theCanadian contribution to our present culture and entertainment intake.

I recommend this read, if you've a slightly skewered perception of theworld, are a massive pop-culture trivia fan (there's lots in this bookyou'll be interested in learning!), and want a fresh view of what Canadaand Canadians are about.

Too bad it's out of print, but maybe ifthere's enough interest, the publisher will do a new print-run of the book,and Pevere and Dymond will add some new tid-bits of fascinating info(geee...... Celine's FINALLY pregnant!) in a post-script chapter of Canadacoming into the new millennium.

Entertaining read. ... Read more

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Other Conundrums, copublished with Vancouver's Artspeak Gallery and the Kamloops Art Gallery, is an extraordinary collection of essays on Canadian artists of colour by Monika Kin Gagnon, one of Canada's most respected art writers and curators. The essays explore the history of cultural production in this country with an emphasis on race, cultural difference, and cultural hybridity.

Using specific artists and exhibitions as a starting-point for Gagnon's discussions, these essays, and the artists she writes about, are firmly grounded in Canadian cultural events, artistic projects, and theoretical ideas concerning race and culture which have circulated in often disparate contexts for the last decade. The book makes a distinctively Canadian contribution to ongoing dialogues on issues of race and culture that have originated from artists, writers, and theorists from the US and Britain, and provides an important and relevatory context to the work of Canada's artists of colour.

The book includes numerous colour and black and white images, and a foreword by award-winning writer Larissa Lai (When Fox Is a Thousand).

Chapters include overviews of the work of such artists as Shani Mootoo, Paul Wong, Jamelie Hassan, and Dana Claxton.

Other Conundrums is an essential snapshot of contemporary issues surrounding race and identity as revealed in visual art.

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Long recognized for outstanding National Film Board documentaries and innovative animated movies, Canada has recently emerged from the considerable shadow of the Hollywood elephant with a series of feature films that have captured the attention of audiences around the world.

This is the first anthology to focus on Canada's feature films - those acknowledged as its very best.

With essays by senior academics and leading scholars from across the country as well as some fresh new voices, 'Canada's Best Features' offers penetrating analyses of fifteen award-winning films. Internationally acclaimed directors David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Denys Arcand, and Claude Jutra are represented here. Noteworthy films include 'Mon oncle Antoine', often cited as Canada's number one film of all time, such Cannes Festival favourites as 'Le déclin de l'empire américain' and 'Exotica', and cult films 'Careful' by Guy Maddin and 'Masala' by Srinivas Krishna.

The essays offer the latest word on these films and filmmakers, done from a variety of perspectives. Some of the films have never been examined in-depth before. Complete filmographies and bibliographies accompany each essay. A contextualizing introduction by Professor Gene Walz provides the necessary overview. An annotated bibliography of books on the Canadian film industry completes this impressive package. ... Read more

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North American cities of the late nineteenth century, grappling with the effects of industrial capitalism and urban growth, were subject to a succession of massive social transformations.Scientific and technological advances were shifting the balance of cosmopolitan power, and people faced the challenge of comprehending and adapting to the rapidly changing social environment.In Becoming Modern in Toronto, Keith Walden shows how the Toronto Industrial Exhibition, from its founding in 1879 to 1903 (when it was renamed the Canadian National Exhibition), influenced the shaping and ordering of the emerging urban culture.Unlike other studies of its kind, it fully integrates experiences on and off the fairground by viewing the fair as a microcosm of developing structures in the city and surrounding rural areas.

The book is arranged around seven thematic elements - order, confidence, display, identity, space, entertainment, and carnival - each of which concerns the way the Exhibition contributed to a search for definition in the face of innovation.The efforts to divide existence into logical, unambiguous categories and to promote controlled conduct was, however, constantly frustrated by the novelty of the fair itself.The Exhibition presented fairgoers with new perspectives and information, while the exhibits simultaneously denied and invited their participation.Though the fair seemed to glorify professional accomplishments and legitimate Tlite leadership, it also implied that the fruits of industrial capitalist society were not exclusive.Walden concentrates on these ambiguities, revealing how the status quo was both confirmed and challenged at the fair.

Becoming Modern in Toronto takes into account a variety of social tensions and concerns that pervaded late Victorian culture.It will be compelling reading for historians, sociologists, and cultural anthropologists, as well as for those interested in the symbolic and social meaning of public festivity andits regulation. ... Read more

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A nation is given shape in large part through the cultural activities of its builders. Historically, nationalists have turned to the arts and media to articulate and institute a sense of unique national identity. This was certainly true of Canada in the twentieth century. Canadian Content explores ways in which nationhood was defined and pursued through cultural means in Canada throughout the last century.

As a framework for the study, Ryan Edwardson distinguishes between three phases of Canadianization: support for the arts and cultured mass media during the colony-to-nation transition; the 'new nationalist' empowerment of multi-brow culture and the call for state intervention in the mid-1960s and 1970s; and the 'cultural industrialism' initiated by the federal government under Pierre Trudeau in 1968. Examining each phase in its turn, 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.

Considering the relationship between culture and national identity, this study offers an idea of what it means to be Canadian, and suggests just how adaptable, problematic, and ongoing the pursuit of nationhood can be.

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Reflect on this: You work hard; maybe you work two jobs. You do your best to pay the mortgage or the rent, not to mention other bills. You could use a few extra bucks for your kids' sports or education.

In short—you're responsible. Shouldn't the people in charge of governments and taxes be the same? Instead, a separatist sympathizer is chosen as Governor-General, political appointments expect entitlements, and too many politicians elected in one party opportunistically jump ship to another. The same people pass laws to prevent citizens from speaking up—at election time! While this happens, the same political-bureaucratic-judicial axis can't get tough on crime.

A Nation of Serfs?: How Canada's Political culture Corrupts Canadian Values is a tart, opinionated call for Canadians to re-think their politics, their dependencies, and the mistaken belief that nothing ever changes. But it can. It starts with truth-telling. It starts with remembering our history. It starts with this book.

"Nothing like this book has ever appeared in Canada. My favourite chapter is the one devoted to exploring some of Canada's true roots as a principles of limited government as any in the world."

—Terence Corcoran, Editorial Page Editor, The Financial Post

"This book is a must-read. Mark Milke makes the moral case against dependency for its own sake. On the right, the fallacy of government subsidies to corporate Canada is exposed; so too is the culture of apathy, entitlement and opposition to sensible reform, which is relentlessly encouraged by the political left. A Nation of Serfs? will open the eyes of average Canadians; it will hand them the 'ammo' to confront many tax-happy politicians and the rainbow of special-interest groups that cheer them on."

—John Williamson. Federal Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation ... Read more

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"...a great deal of challenging and questioning within analyses of the relationship of the arts to feminism..." - Art Views ... Read more

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This book is a cultural studies reading of Canadian culture and its security dimension during the Second World War and then later the Cold War. Kristmanson uses a wide variety of evidence to construct a provocative argument about the formation and maturity of the Canadian state during the time period other historians have characterized as Canada's evolution from colony to nation. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, published by Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn. on May 1, 2004. The length of the article is 885 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Sherry B. Ortner, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58.(Book Review)
Author: Marilyn Silverman
Publication: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2004
Publisher: Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Assn.
Volume: 41Issue: 2Page: 246(3)

Article Type: Book Review

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This title includes twelve essays that examine challenges that an intensified culture of research capitalism imposes on the humanities. Is market-driven research healthy? Responding to the language of 'knowledge mobilisation' that percolates through Canadian post-secondary education, the literary scholars who contributed these essays address the challenges that an intensified culture of research capitalism brings to the humanities in particular. Stakeholders in Canada's research infrastructure - university students, professors, and administrators; grant policy makers and bureaucrats; and, the public who are the ultimate inheritors of such knowledge - are urged to examine a range of perspectives on the increasingly entrepreneurial university environment and its growing corporate culture. It includes essays by: L M Findlay; Donna Palmateer Pennee; Kit Dobson; Jessica Schagerl; Ashok Mathur and Rita Wong; Marjorie Stone; Paul Danyluk; Melissa Stephens; Susan Brown; Diana Brydon; and, Daniel Coleman and Smaro Kamboureli. ... Read more