Media & Society
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From  Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima 2.0From: Uncle |
This chapter examines the recent re-branding of commercial caricatures such as Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima. Now silent trademark characters, they no longer speak in advertisements and are reduced … | Cheryl Thompson | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From Uncle Tom and Black CapitalismFrom: Uncle |
This chapter concerns the rise of Black conservatism in the 1980s and early 90s, as exemplified by figures such as Clarence Thomas. | Cheryl Thompson | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
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From Uncle Tom and EvaFrom: Uncle |
In this chapter, Thompson examines the illustrations that gave Uncle Tom’s Cabin much of its lasting appeal. | Cheryl Thompson | 6 | 2021 | $0.60 Add |
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From Uncle Tom on the Big ScreenFrom: Uncle |
This chapter explores the first on-screen depiction of Uncle Tom. He was portrayed by a white actor in blackface in a film made by Thomas Edison. | Cheryl Thompson | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From Uncle Tom’s 1960s TransformationFrom: Uncle |
This chapter focuses on the 1950s and 60s, a time of events that would forever define both the civil rights protests and the state-sanctioned violance that followed. During this era, Uncle Tom … | Cheryl Thompson | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From Uncle Tom’s CabinFrom: Uncle |
This chapter explores Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, which was an explosive success in antebellum America. It also examines Uncle Tom himself, who in the novel was a devout and pious … | Cheryl Thompson | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Using Production Studies to Analyze Canada:A People’s History From: Cultural Industries.ca |
Olivier Côté draws attention to English–French tensions in cultural production in Canada and demonstrates the insights provided by using a “production studies” approach. | Olivier Côté | 19 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
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From Vaudeville TomFrom: Uncle |
This chapter describes the evolution of minstrelsy into vaudeville, and how this new form of entertainment brought new meaning to the character of Uncle Tom. | Cheryl Thompson | 7 | 2021 | $0.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Victims PeopleFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry examines how the public and accidental nature of traffic fatalities impact the tone and intensity of the media coverage that surrounds it. Cherry includes the comments of … | Tamara Cherry | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From Video Games Production:Level Up From: Cultural Industries.ca |
Greig de Peuter’s chapter draws attention not only to a new and important area of the cultural industries, that of video game production, but also to new kinds of working conditions facing … | Greig de Peuter | 17 | 2012 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Warrior Nation |
The author explores the rise of militarist attitudes in Canada and Canadian involvement in various wars and military operations around the world in recent history. The author discusses epic … | Noah Richler | 80 | 2012 | $8.00 Add |
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From What is to be Done? |
The author muses on Canadian culture and the ideas of epics and epic behaviour, which reduce the world to a dichotomy of black and white and as a result encourage militarism/"warrior … | Noah Richler | 46 | 2012 | $4.60 Add |
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From  NEW! What is Wrong with Social Media?An Anti-Capitalist Critique |
Marcus Gilroy-Ware provides an authoritative and skeptical assessment of ‘what is wrong with social media’ and places the social pathologies they amplify within the capitalist … | Marcus Gilroy-Ware | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
What We Talk About When We Talk About War |
An Amazon.ca Editor’s Pick for 2012 and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2012 Shortlisted, Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and … | 376 | View | ||
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From NEW! When the News Trucks Go AwayFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry discusses the fatal Humboldt Broncos car crash that occurred in 2018. She includes excerpts of her interview with Laurie, whose son was among the passengers that did not … | Tamara Cherry | 8 | 2023 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Widow KimFrom: The Trauma Beat |
In this chapter, Cherry examines the media coverage surrounding the death of constable William Hancox. Cherry includes excerpts from her interview with the widow of the deceased, who describes … | Tamara Cherry | 14 | 2023 | $1.40 Add |
