LEADER 03719nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910783797803321 005 20231206210218.0 010 $a1-282-86141-7 010 $a9786612861413 010 $a0-7735-7138-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773571389 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244908 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280029 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11912402 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280029 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10268721 035 $a(PQKB)11376284 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400134 035 $a(CaBNvSL)gtp00521414 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330701 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10132884 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL286141 035 $a(OCoLC)929120871 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/7b1gwf 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400134 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330701 035 $a(DE-B1597)656902 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773571389 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3243445 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244908 100 $a20030409d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA great duty$b[electronic resource] $eCanadian responses to modern life and mass culture in Canada, 1939-1967 /$fL.B. Kuffert 210 $aMontre?al $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (348 pages) 225 1 $aCarleton library ;$v199 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-7735-2601-3 311 0 $a0-7735-2600-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [319]-341) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Cultural Criticism in English Canada -- $tWar and the Culture of Reconstruction 1939?1945 -- $tLight from the Crucible of War -- $tThe Culture of Reconstruction -- $tPostwar Realities, Shifting Perspectives 1945?1957 -- $tScience and Religion in a Mass Culture -- $tCultural Policy, Cultural Pessimism -- $tFull Circle: A Broadening Definition of Culture 1957?1967 -- $tMass Media, Broadcasting, and Automation -- $tThe Long Long Weekend: Centennial and Expo 67 -- $tConclusion: A Secret Understanding -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aEnglish-Canadian cultural critics from across the political spectrum championed self-improvement, self-awareness, and lively engagement with one's surroundings, struggling to find a balance between the social benefits of democracy and modernization and what they considered the debilitating influence of the accompanying mass culture. They used print and broadcast media in an attempt to convince Canadians that choosing wisely between varieties of culture was an expression of personal and national identity, making cultural nationalism in Canada a "middlebrow" project. As Kuffert argues, "if English Canadians are today more familiar with the ways in which modern life and mass culture envelop and define them, if they live in a nation where private citizens and cultural institutions view the media as avenues of entertainment, as businesses, or as the means to construct identity, they should be aware of the role of wartime and post-war cultural critics" in creating those orientations toward culture. 410 0$aCarleton library series ;$v199. 606 $aPopular culture$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aCanada$xCivilization$y20th century 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 676 $a306/.0971 700 $aKuffert$b L. B$g(Leonard B.)$0895813 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783797803321 996 $aA great duty$93705175 997 $aUNINA