Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Poetics of Canadian Culture -- I: Media and Its (Dis) Contents -- Frances Dorsey, My Grandmother's Violin -- 1 (Im)Possible Exchanges: The Arts of Counter-Surveillance -- 2 Canadian Humour and National Culture: Move Over, Mr. Leacock -- 3 Collective Memory on the Airwaves: The Negotiation of Unity and Diversity in a Troubled Canadian Nationalism -- 4 Framing the Local: Canadian Film Policy and the Problem of Place -- 5 Framing Culture, Talking Race: Race, Gender, and Violence in the News Media -- II: Performing and Disrupting Identities -- Joanne Bristol, 20-minute visualization: Sandee, Lee, Sandra, Seema -- 6 Marketing Ambivalence: Molson Breweries Go Postcolonial -- 7 "The North": Intersecting Worlds and World Views -- 8 Dressed to Thrill: Costume, Body, and Dress in Canadian Performative Art -- 9 Figures of Otherness in Canadian Video -- 10 Queerly Canadian: "Perversion Chic" Cinema and (Queer) Nationalism in English Canada -- III: (Dis) Locating Language -- Rachelle Viader Knowles, Pull/Apart -- 11 Out of Psychoanalysis: A Ficto-Criticism Monologue -- 12 Some Imaginary Geographies in Quebec Fiction -- 13 L.M. Montgomery on Television: The Romance and Industry of the Adaptation Process -- 14 The Use of "Fisher" in a Nova Scotian Fishing Community: A Theory of Hegemony for a Complex Canadian Culture -- 15 Thinking the Wonderful: After Rudolf Komorous, beside the Reveries -- 16 Maîtres Chez Nous: Public Art and Linguistic Identity in Quebec -- IV: Cultural Dissidence -- Lori Blondeau, Belle Sauvage -- 17 Black History and Culture in Canada: A Celebration of Essence or Presence -- 18 Decolonizing Interpretation at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site -- 19 Culture and an Aboriginal Charter of Rights.

20 Canadian Gothic: Multiculturalism, Indigeneity, and Gender in Prairie Cinema -- 21 Through a Canadian Lens: Discourses of Nationalism and Aboriginal Representation in Governmental Photographs -- Bibliography -- Biographical Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.