Table of Contents
Introduction, by Victoria Kannen and Neil Shyminsky
Section I: Identity
Chapter 1: “We Weren’t Meant to Be Singing This Music”: VAG HALEN’s Queer Feminist Covers, by Craig Jennex
Chapter 2: Defining and Redefining Québécois Identity: Québec Cinema in the 21st Century, by David Hanley
Chapter 3: Translocality and the Articulation of a Jamaican/Canadian Identity in the Music of Michie Mee, by Niel Scobie
Chapter 4: Being Canada: Joe’s Rant, Nationalism, Whiteness, and the Illusion of Neutrality, Then and Now, by Sharlee Cranston-Reimer
Chapter 5: Syrus Marcus Ware, #BLACKLIVESMATTER, and ‘Artivism’ in Canada, by Joana Joachim
Chapter 6: Loving and Loathing on Schitt’s Creek: How Representations of Emotion, Identities, and Nation Matter, by Victoria Kannen
Section II: Community
Chapter 7: Integrating Black Lives in Education: Black Lives Matter Freedom School, by Audrey Hudson
Chapter 8: A Read on Canada Reads, by J. C. Villamere
Chapter 9: Non/monogamies in Canadian Children’s Picture Books, by Liz Borden
Chapter 10: “I’m a criminal…it’s all I know”: Comedy, Crime, and Critical Thinking in Trailer Park Boys, by Dawne Clarke
Chapter 11: From “One Nation Under Gord” to #WeTheNorth: Whose Canada Peaked?, by Jocelyn Smith
Chapter 12: “This beautiful land we can all proudly call home”: The Amazing Race Canada and the Maintenance of National Myths, by Andrea Ruehlicke
Section III: Production
Chapter 13: Canadian Popular Culture and the Many “Faces” of TV Formats, by Stéfany Boisvert and Audrey Bélanger
Chapter 14: The Boundaries of National Cinema: International Co-Productions and Canadian Film Culture, by Peter Lester
Chapter 15: The Canadian Genre Film as a Cultural Commentary, by Andrea Braithwaite
Chapter 16: Under the Shadows of Hollywood: The Political Economy of Canadian Cinema, by James McMahon
Chapter 17: Burying the Past: Indigeneity and the Canadian Horror Canon, by Mike Follert
Chapter 18: The Greatest Canadian Superhero There Never Was: Kao-kuk “the Eskimo Astronaut,” Neil Shyminsky
Chapter 19: Sounds Canadian? Familiar Voices in an Exaggerated Canada: Exploring the Sound World of Chilly Beach, by Kristeen McKee
Chapter 20: Red, White, and Grey: Double Double Land and Un-defining Canadian Popular Culture, by Nicole Marchesseau
Section IV: Technology
Chapter 21: Playing Canadian: A Brief History of Tabletop Games in Canada, by Ryan Clement
Chapter 22: Canadian Indie Video Games: More Than Locations, Landmarks, and Loonies, by Aaron Langille
Chapter 23: Stereo/Types: Female DJs in Canada and the Gimmick/Token Binary, by Maren Hancock
Chapter 24: The Beat of Culture: Teaching Québec Culture through Music, by Yvonne Völkl
Chapter 25: Ramping up Canadian Disability Culture, by Kelly Fritsch
Chapter 26: Canadian Pop in the Digital Age: Pioneering Pathways to Stardom and Representation via Justin Bieber, by Melissa Avdeeff
Section V: Spectacle
Chapter 27: Canadian Crybabies: Radical Softness, Feminized Fan Publics, and the Politics of Carly Rae Jepsen, by Andi Schwartz and Morgan Bimm
Chapter 28: Gender Matters at the Centennial Calgary Stampede Parade, by Kimberly A. Williams
Chapter 29: “Wanna hang out at the mall and catch a movie?”: The Disposability of the West Edmonton Mall Multiplex, by Ian Fitzgerald
Chapter 30: The ‘Funny’ Thing About Food Allergies…in Canadian Media Culture, by Janis Goldie
Chapter 31: Consuming Popular Culture and Politics in Beer, by Lori A. Crowe
Chapter 32: Hockey Invented Canada: Questioning the Myths of Manufactured Nationalism, by Tyler Shipley
Appendix
Contributors Biographies
