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UNINA9910459947403321 |
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Titolo |
Canada's game [[electronic resource] ] : hockey and identity / / edited by Andrew C. Holman |
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-86638-9 |
9786612866388 |
0-7735-7591-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (245 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HolmanAndrew C <1965-> (Andrew Carl) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hockey - Social aspects - Canada |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 1920's and 1930's 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 |
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