Expo 67 and Its World brings together Québécois, Canadian, First Nations, and international scholars to propose a reappraisal of Expo 67 as an opportunity for collective re-imagining across a range of social spaces, from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples to the increasingly global ambit of you...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Moyes, Craig (HerausgeberIn), Palmer, Steven 1961- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago McGill-Queen's University Press 2022
Schlagworte:	World Expo Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine > 1967 > Montréal Geschichte Montréal
Zusammenfassung:	Expo 67 and Its World brings together Québécois, Canadian, First Nations, and international scholars to propose a reappraisal of Expo 67 as an opportunity for collective re-imagining across a range of social spaces, from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance. Cover -- Expo 67 and Its World -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization -- 1 Expo 67 and Its (Laurentian) World -- 2 Two Universal Endings: Architecture and Cinema at the New York and Montreal World's Fairs -- 3 "For We Have Waited a Hundred Thousand Years": The Indians of Canada Pavilion and Indigenous Curatorial Practices -- 4 Our Two Masks: Canadian Colonial Humanism and Indigenous Representation at Montreal's World Exhibition -- 5 The First Postcolonial World Exhibition: Revolutionary Cuba and the Black Atlantic at Expo 67 -- 6 Innovation and the Prospect of the Post-National in the Architecture of Expo 67 -- 7 Moving Image: Commissioned Quebec Cinema "à l'heure de l'Expo" -- 8 Here, There, and Everywhere: Youth Revolt in Quebec and Around the World -- 9 Glass/Screen, or Dialectics at a (Momentary) Standstill: Marcelle Ferron's Windows at the International Trade Centre/Expo Club -- 10 Staging Modern Medicine in Montreal: Anatomy of an Avant-Garde Pavilion -- 11 The New Brutalism and Design beyond Understanding at Expo 67 -- 12 Secret Agents at Expo: The Case of Kommissar X -- 13 Earth, River, (Is)Land: The Foundations and Re-foundations of Expo 67 -- Epilogue: "A Legend for Generations to Come": Expo 67 in the Historical Memory of Contemporary Québécois -- Appendix: Notes on Expo 67 Visitor Data -- Tables and Figures -- Contributors -- Index.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	ix, 444 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne
ISBN:	9780228010999 9780228011002