Media & Communication Studies
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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 ![]() Margaret Mitchellm (1925 -) |
Madelyn Holmes | 14 | 2017 | $1.40 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 ![]() NEW! Martin Champoux: Getting Things DoneFrom: Canada Vs California |
This profile highlights the acute observations made by Martin Champoux, a former radio host and the only member of the Bloc Quebecois party on the heritage committee. Howard Law highlights the … | Howard Law | 3 | 2024 | $0.30 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 ![]() Media Reporting on National Security Judicial ProceedingsFrom: In The Balance |
Discusses media reporting on national security judicial proceedings in the United Kingdom and Europe, placing particular focus on cases such as Chahal v UK, Attorney General v Guardian Newspapers … | Rt Hon Lord Hutton | 8 | 2011 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Mere “song and dance”Complicating the multicultural imperative in the arts From: Home and Native Land |
However one understands multiculturalism in Canada, one of the shared features of its multiple definitions is diversity – what many would describe as the undisputed success of a … | Natasha Bakht | 14 | 2011 | $1.82 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 |
![]() 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 |
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From ![]() Muzzling the MediaFrom: BlackBerry Town |
Howitt explains RIM’s rocky relationship with the media. Howitt draws from his experience as a reporter at the Waterloo Region Record and from the anecdotes of fellow reporter Matt Walcoff. | Chuck Howitt | 36 | 2019 | $3.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Neoliberal Common SenseThe Stubborn Persistence of Neoliberalism |
This chapter looks at the persistence of neoliberalism despite financial crises and electoral change, the existence of cultural hegemony in normalizing neoliberalist policies as mere common … | Alex Himelfarb | 25 | 2024 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Neoliberal PoliticsTransforming Conservativism |
This chapter discusses the economic conditions of the late 1970s that made Canada ripe for conservatism and the impact of the Regan and Thatcher governments on the rise of neoliberalism in Canada … | Alex Himelfarb | 20 | 2024 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() Newspapers and Magazines:Of Crows and Finches From: Cultural Industries.ca |
In Chris Dornan’s chapter on newspapers and magazines, the changing nature of the audience and technologies serves as the focus | Christopher Dornan | 24 | 2012 | $2.40 Add |

















