Reviews

"Few studies have addressed the complex, sometimes adversarial and sometimes fruitful, influences of American culture on this country. By taking this relationship as a defining feature of Canadian culture, this collection of essays is already on relatively untouched terrain. This book will be a valuable contribution to the study of Canadian contemporary culture." Charles R. Acland, Department of Film Studies, Queen's University. "This systematic comparison between Canadian and American forms of popular culture is useful because it provides evidence that culture transfers are neither linear nor simple and that popular culture theorizing needs to be more complex than supposed by mass society theorists and by leisure studies scholars ... The book also permits the reader to begin to ponder ways in which different types of popular culture performances, genres, and venues interact with each other ... It brings together scholarship from a variety of different disciplines indicating the multi-disciplinary interest which popular culture has aroused since the seventies." Gertrude J. Robinson, Graduate Programme in Communications, McGill University.