Canada's game
Subtitle: hockey and identity
By: edited by Andrew C. Holman.
Contributors: Holman, Andrew C. 1965-
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780773535978; 9780773535985
Subjects: Hockey Canada; Hockey -- Social aspects -- Canada; Hockey -- Canada; Hockey -- Aspect social -- Canada
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Canada's game? Hockey and the problem of identity / Andrew C. Holman; title: I: Community, region, nation: hockey and the contexts of identity; title: Big liners and beer gardens: the Port Arthur Bear Cats, Shamateurism, and the selection controversy surrounding Canada's 1936 Olympic Hockey Team / Greg Gillespie; title: Are American's really hockey villains? A new perspective on the American influence on Canada's national game / Craig Hyatt and Julie Stevens; title: Confronting a compelling other: the summit series and the nostalgic (trans)formation of Canadian identity / Brian Kennedy; title: II: Forging identity through fiction; title: "Just part of the game": depictions of violence in hockey prose / Jason Blake; title: Win Orr lose: searching for the good Canadian kid in Canadian hockey fiction / Jamie Dopp; title: The mystery of a Canadian father of hockey stories: Leslie McFarlane's break away from the Hardy Boys / Karen E. H. Skinazi; title: III: Buying and selling identities: hockey as commodity; title: "There's more people here tonight than at a first night of the metropolitan": professional hockey spectatorship in the 1920s and 1930s in New York and Toronto / Russell Field; title: 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; title: Forever proud? The Montreal Canadiens' transition from the forum to the Molson Centre / Robert Dennis; title: Manufacturing players and controlling sports: an interpretation of the political economy of hockey and the 2004 NHL lockout / Julian Ammirante.