Celebrity Cultures in Canada.

Explores how celebrity phenomena have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. Topics range from politics and sports to film and literature. Essays highlight the trends that characterize Canadian celebrity and explore the specific cultures and institutions that distinguish fame...

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Author / Creator: Lee, Katja.
Other Authors / Creators:York, Lorraine.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint: Waterloo, ON : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016.
Series:Cultural Studies
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: The Celebrity Nation -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Celebrity Cultures in Canada. It's Not a Question -- 1 Rediscovering Nell Shipman for Canadian Cultural Heritage -- 2 "What an elastic nationality she possesses!" Transnational Celebrity Identities in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- 3 Terry Fox and Disabled Celebrity -- 4 Canadian Political Celebrity: From Trudeau to Trudeau -- 5 Celebrity and the Cultivation of Indigenous Publics in Canada -- 6 Lament for a Hockey Nation, Don Cherry, and the Apparatus of Canadian Celebrity -- 7 Bon Cop, Bad Cop: A Tale of Two Star Systems -- 8 Crossover Stars: Canadian Viewing Strategies and the Case of Callum Keith Rennie -- 9 What's So Funny about Canadian Expats? The Comedian as Celebrity Export -- 10 Re: Focusing (on) Celebrity: Canada's Major Poetry Prizes -- 11 Bureaucratic Celebrity -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y. 
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