Canada's game hockey and identity / edited by Andrew C. Holman.
| Other author | Holman, Andrew C. (Andrew Carl), 1965- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | MontreĢal : McGill-Queen's University Press, |
| Description | vi, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Canada's game? Hockey and the problem of identity / Andrew C. Holman -- I: Community, region, nation: hockey and the contexts of identity -- Big liners and beer gardens: the Port Arthur Bear Cats, Shamateurism, and the selection controversy surrounding Canada's 1936 Olympic Hockey Team / Greg Gillespie -- Are American's really hockey villains? A new perspective on the American influence on Canada's national game / Craig Hyatt and Julie Stevens -- Confronting a compelling other: the summit series and the nostalgic (trans)formation of Canadian identity / Brian Kennedy -- II: Forging identity through fiction -- "Just part of the game": depictions of violence in hockey prose / Jason Blake -- Win Orr lose: searching for the good Canadian kid in Canadian hockey fiction / Jamie Dopp -- The mystery of a Canadian father of hockey stories: Leslie McFarlane's break away from the Hardy Boys / Karen E. H. Skinazi -- III: Buying and selling identities: hockey as commodity -- "There's more people here tonight than at a first night of the metropolitan": professional hockey spectatorship in the 1920s and 1930s in New York and Toronto / Russell Field -- Between a puck and a showpiece: spectator sport and the differing responses to hockey (and its absence) in Canada and the United States - a Canadian poet looks at the fate of the game / Richard Harrison -- Forever proud? The Montreal Canadiens' transition from the forum to the Molson Centre / Robert Dennis -- Manufacturing players and controlling sports: an interpretation of the political economy of hockey and the 2004 NHL lockout / Julian Ammirante. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010290224 |
| ISBN | 9780773535978 |
| ISBN | 0773535977 |
| ISBN | 0773535985 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780773535985 (hbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |