Media & Society
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From  July 2020: The Lie of Personal ResponsibilityFrom: Spin Doctors |
In this chapter, Loreto examines the neoliberal politics employed by politicians and the media to encourage a sense of individual responsibility to prevent further spread of the virus. Loreto … | Nora Loreto | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From June 2020: Systemic Racism and COVID-19 SpreadFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter explores Covid-19 during June 2020 as well as the Black Lives Matter movement. The response of Canadian politicians and journalists is examined. Loreto discusses how Covid-19 … | Nora Loreto | 26 | 2021 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Karma |
This chapter discusses the aftermath of Vito Rizzuto’s death. | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 11 | 2022 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Learning, Play, and ParentingConflicting Needs in a Busy, Busy World From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
With a little walk through history, and a little more developmental theory, I will explore larger cultural shifts in parenting and family systems, expand on the blurred lines of learning and … | Mari K Swingle | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From  IntroductionFrom: Decolonize Hipsters |
In the Introduction, author Grégory Pierrot reflects on how his time in Portland inspired this book. The chapter provides a brief history of Portland and the state of Oregon, a brief … | Grégory Pierrot | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Loyalty |
This chapter explores loyalty and more mafia history in Montreal and beyond. | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Making the Sausage: How Policies Become Laws |
Chapter Two focuses on the process of policies becoming law. Topics addressed include the legislative process, the types of bills (Public and Private Bills), the timing of Bills, the … | Mark Bourrie | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From  ManifestoFrom: The Tangled Garden |
Summarizes why Canada’s media industry is at a crisis and why, absent intervention, remaining major media are likely to shut down. Canadian media institutions like Postmedia, the Toronto … | Richard Stursberg | 33 | 2019 | $3.30 Add |
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From March 2021: One Year in Media CutsFrom: Spin Doctors |
In this chapter, Loreto examine why the Canadian media had frequently reported on Covid-19 using the narrative being peddled by the government, without providing any investigative alternatives. … | Nora Loreto | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Marketing the Imaginary IndianFrom: The Imaginary Indian |
Many aspects of Native culture have been appropriated over the years and turned into commodities to help sell products in the marketplace. Each time they respond to a sales pitch which features … | Daniel Francis | 41 | 1992 | $4.10 Add |
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From  Marketing the Imaginary Indian |
Many aspects of Native culture have been appropriated over the years and turned into commodities to help sell products in the marketplace. Each time they respond to a sales pitch which features … | Daniel Francis | 41 | 1992 | $1.64 Add |
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From May 2020: COVID-19 Hits Food Processing IndustriesFrom: Spin Doctors |
This chapter covers how Covid-19 impacted food processing industries. Loreto examines how the workers in grocery stores, factories, and plants were "hailed as frontline heroes and treated as … | Nora Loreto | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Middle-Aged, Gifted and BlackStructures of Feeling in the Black Atlantic From: Thinking While Black |
In this chapter the author connects Armond White’s film criticism in the New York Press and Paul Gilroy’s academic career at Goldsmiths College in London between the years of 1997 to … | Daniel McNeil | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Minstrel Show TomFrom: Uncle |
This chapter examines the phenomenon of minstrelsy, and how Uncle Tom came to be depicted in minstrel shows. | Cheryl Thompson | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Monsters and MarvelsFrom: Disfigured |
Chapter 8 focuses on the fine line between what is considered monstrous and the marvellous in fairy tales and real life, exploring topics such as superheros, circus and spectacle, … | Amanda Leduc | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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NEW! Inside the Montreal MafiaThe Confessions of Andrew Scoppa |
A groundbreaking, exclusive inside look at the North American Mafia and the Rizzuto family. For the first time in Canadian history, a high-ranking Mafioso agreed to break the code of omertà by … | Eric Thibault; Félix Séguin | 240 | 2022 | View |
