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Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Popular Culture and the Study of Politics

PART ONE: NEGOTIATING ORDER AND AUTHORITY

2 A Very Useful Engine: The Politics of Thomas and Friends

3 “Something Called the Politics of Lonely”: The Politics of The Weakerthans and John K. Samson

4 Gender Identity in Deep Space: Representations of Political Leadership in Battlestar Galactica

5 Métis Political Identity and the Symbolism of Louis Riel

PART TWO: NEGOTIATING THE NATION-STATE

6 Imagining the Nation with The Royal Canadian Air Farce

7 Leaving Nothing on the Tarmac: Cultural Exchanges and Post-European Cosmopolitics

8 Playgrounds of the Global Village? MMOS and the Contemporary Globalization Debate

PART THREE: NEGOTIATING COLLECTIVE IDENTITY

9 Politics, Identity, and the Economy in Quebec Cinema: Film Narratives and the Movie Industry

10 The Portrayal of English and French Political Culture in Canadian Film

11 The Contribution of La Nuit sur l’Étang to the Construction of a Franco-Ontarian Identity

PART FOUR: CONCLUSION

12 Culture and Politics Revisited: The Political Science of Popular Culture

Contributors

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