The Beaver Bites Back?: American Popular Culture in Canada

379 Pages·1993·19.044 MB·English

by  David H. Flaherty, Frank E. Manning

The Beaver Bites Back1?
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The Beaver
Bites Back?
American Popular Culture
in Canada
Edited by
DAVID H. FLAHERTY and
FRANK E. M A N N I NG
McGill-Queen's University Press
Montreal & Kingston • London • Buffalo
McGill-Queen's University Press 1993
ISBN 0-7735-1119-9 (cloth)
ISBN 0-7735-1120-2 (paper)
Legal deposit fourth quarter 1993
Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
Publication of this book has been supported in part by a grant from
the Faculty of Social Science of The University of Western Ontario and
by the Canada Council through its block grant program.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
The Beaver bites back?: American popular culture in Canada
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7735-1119-9 (bound). —
ISBN 0-7735-1120-2 (pbk.)
i. Canada - Popular culture. 2. United States - Popular culture.
3. Canada — Civilization — American influences. I. Flaherty, David H
II. Manning, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1944—
FC954.B43 1993 306'.0971 093-090373-0
F1021.2.B43 1993
This book was typeset by Typo Litho composition inc. in 10/12
Baskerville.
In memory of Frank E. Manning
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Contents
Preface / xi
Contributors / xvii
Abbreviations / xxi
1 Reversible Resistance: Canadian Popular Culture
and the American Other / 3
FRANK E. MANNING
PART ONE COMMUNICATIONS AND CULTURAL
PENETRATION / 2Q
2 American Culture in a Changing World / 33
BERNARD OSTRY
3 Awakening from the National Broadcasting Dream:
Rethinking Television Regulation for National
Cultural Goals / 42
BRUCE FELDTHUSEN
4 Broadcasting and Canadian Culture:
A Commentary / 75
G. STUART ADAM
5 A Sweet Hope of Glory in My Soul: Television
Evangelism in the United States and Canada / 88
ANDREW LYONS AND HARRIET LYONS
viii Contents
6 Inflecting the Formula: The First Seasons of Street
Legal and L.A. Law I 104
MARY JANE MILLER
PART TWO AMERICAN SPORTS AND CANADIAN
SOCIETY/ 123
7 Popular Cultures of Olympic Sport in Canada
and the United States / 126
JOHNJ. MACALOON
8 Whose National Pastime? Baseball in Canadian
Popular Culture / 152
ROBERT KNIGHT BARNEY
9 Ambivalence at the Fifty-five-Yard Line:
Transformation and Resistance in Canadian
Football / 163
ROBERT A. STEBBINS
PART THREE STAGE, SCREEN, AND
SOUNDTRACK/175
10 Mounties, Muggings, and Moose: Canadian Icons
in a Landscape of American Violence / 178
REID GILBERT
11 Syncretizing Sound: The Emergence of Canadian
Popular Music / 197
MICHAEL TAFT
12 Our House, Their House: Canadian Cinema's Coming
of Age / 209
SETH FELDMAN
13 Wives, Whores, and Priests: Gender Relations and
Narrative Voices in Two Quebecois Traditions / 222
CHARLINE POIRIER
PART FOUR MERCHANDISING CULTURE / 235
14 The Canadianization of an American Fair:
The Case of Expo 86/237
MICHAEL M. AMES
15 Culture for Sale: American Dollars Preferred / 247
GEOFFREY WALL
ix Contents
PART FIVE REFLECTIONS / 257
16 Made in America: The Problem of Mass Culture
in Canada / 260
PAUL RUTHERFORD
17 American Popular Culture and the Canadian State:
The Case of Pornography / 281
THELMA MCCORMACK
18 American Popular Culture in Canada: Trends
and Reflections / 293
ANDREW WERNICK
Notes / 303
Index / 347