Canada's game : hockey and identity / / edited by Andrew C. Holman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910825255803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-7735-7875-7; 1-282-86638-9; 9786612866388; 0-7735-7591-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): HolmanAndrew C <1965-> (Andrew Carl)
• Disciplina: 796.9620971
• Soggetti: Hockey - Social aspects - Canada
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian), Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Robert Dennis (Queen's University), Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria), Russell Field (University of Manitoba), Greg Gillespie (Brock University), Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College), Craig Hyatt (Brock University), Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College), Karen E.H. Skinazi (University of Alberta), and Julie Stevens (Brock University).