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edited by Lynne Van Luven, Priscilla L. Walton.; ;24 cm; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Part 1: The Popular Arts -- Chapter 1. Spectacular Pleasures: Labyrinthine Mirrors in Atom Egoyan's Exotica /by Eleanor Ty -- Chapter 2. American Scipts, Canadian REalities: Toronto's Show Boat /by Leslie Sanders -- Chapter 3. "Keep on Movin'': Rap, Black Atlantic Identities and the Problem of Nation /by Rinaldo Walcott -- Chapter 4. Capitulating to Barbarism: A Case Study of Jazz and/as Popular Culture /by Ajay Heble -- Chapter 5. Murder Ink: Detective Fiction in Canada /by Priscilla L. Walton -- Chapter 6. "Philip Marlowe in Drag"? Performing Gender and Genre in lesbian Detective Novels /by Manina Jones -- Chapter 7. The Banana-Skin Ballet of William Gibson /by Derek Foster -- Part 2: Spending, Getting, Spending -- Chapter 8. The Mystery of the Bathurst Street Elvis -- Chapter 9. The Oldest Profession: Shopping /by Candace Fertile -- Chapter 10. Playing and Being Played: Experiencing West Edmonton Mall /by Robert R. Wilson -- Part 3: The Many Forms of Media -- Chapter 11. What's Cool /by Miles Kronby -- Chapter 12. Our Avonlea: Imagining Community in an Imaginary Past /by Aspasia Kotosopoulos -- Chapter 13. The Women's Television Network: By, For, and About women... or what that ratings? /by Shirley Anne Off -- Chapter 14. The Last Circle of Journalism Hell: THe Bargain Basement of the Tabloids /by Michael Dorland -- Chapter 15. Turning the English Patient Into a Film /by Alice Van Wart -- Part 4: The Sporting Life Lives -- Chapter 16. The CFL and Canadian Form /by Michael Zeitlin -- Chapter 17. "Who Got Next?" Raptor Morality and Black Public Masculinity in Canada /by Gamal Abdel-Shehid -- Chapter 18. Hockey and Culture /by Gary Genosko -- Chapter 19. Of Time and Space and Hockey: An Imaginary Conversation /by Tom McSorley -- Part 5: The Visula and Its Popular Manifestations -- Chapter 20. The Death of Princess Dianna: Mourning a "Very British Girl" /by Ann Wilson -- Chapter 21. A Portrait of the Artist as a Sensitive Young Man: The State, the Media, and "The Ordeal of Eli Langer" /by Anne-Marie Kinahan -- Chapter 22. Sub-AlterNet Counterpublics: Feminist Interventions into the Digital Public Sphere /by Sheryl Hamilton -- Chapter 23. Gayda /Bruce Gillespie -- Part 6: Border Trangressions and Interventions -- Chapter 24. Untangling Karla's Web: Post-National Argument, Cross-Border crimes, and the Investigation of Canadian Culture /by Michael Dorland and Priscilla L. Walton -- Chapter 25. Weathering the North: Climate, Colonialism, and the Mediated Body /by Jody Berland -- Chapter 26. Cultures, Borders, and Free Trade /by Kevin Dowler -- Chapter 27. Canadian Queer Identities: Cross-Border Shopping for Politics and Fun /by Lise Pottie, Source type: Electronic(1)