Canada's game [[electronic resource] ] : hockey and identity / / edited by Andrew C. Holman

• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Disciplina: 796.9620971
• Soggetto topico: Hockey - Social aspects - Canada
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: HolmanAndrew C <1965-> (Andrew Carl)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Canada's game
• ISBN: 1-282-86638-9; 9786612866388; 0-7735-7591-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459947403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II