Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Contexts of popular culture / Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan -- A future for media studies: cultural labour, cultural relations, cultural politics / Toby Miller -- Log on, goof off, and look up: Facebook and the rhythms of Canadian internet use / Ira Wagman -- Hawkers and public space: free commuter newspapers in Canada / Will Straw -- Walking a tightrope: the global cultural economy of Canadian television / Serra Tinic -- Pedagogy of popular culture: "Doing" Canadian popular culture / Gloria Filax -- Popular genres in Quebec cinema: the strange case of horror in film and television / Andre Loiselle -- Cosmopolitans and hosers: notes on recent developments in English-Canadian cinema / Zoe Druick -- From genre to genre: image transactions in contemporary Canadian art / Johanne Sloan -- Controlling the popular: Canadian memory institutions and popular culture / Frits Pannekoek, Mary Hemmings, and Helen Clarke -- After the spirit sang: Aboriginal Canadians and museum policy in the new millennium / Heather Devine -- Producing the Canadian female athlete: negotiating the popular logics of sport and citizenship / Michelle Helstein -- Gothic night in Canada: global hockey realities and ghostly national imaginings / Patricia Hugjes-Fuller -- Vernacular folk song on Canadian radio: recovered, constructed, and suppressed identities / E. David Gregory -- The virtual expanses of Canadian popular culture / Derek Briton.

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