ACS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada Council, Totalitarianism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 100
• Professor: Dana Osborne

Document Summary

Discuss some taste-making institutions in canada during and after the cold war. Link concepts of consumption to national narratives in canada. Outline two periods of nationalist construction: cold war period, post-cold war period, hints for the future. Druick and carstairs argue that it was during the cold war period that we can observe an emphatic interconnection between culture and politics (druick 2006, Political and social preoccupations during this time gave rise to culture-making entities. Since the late 1970s and early 80s, canada has undergone the process by which. Commodi cation as a discourse culture in recent years [coupled with the] liberalization of global trade (2006, 178). The social sciences and humanities research council 1977. Nationalism has indeed been a signi cant rationale for cultural funding since the. 1920s, but postwar nationalism is indebted to the logic of internationalism, and it inherited many of its contradictions and tensions (druick 2006, 178) The establishment of the canadian commission for unesco.