Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v15i1.6469
Dalia Grobovaite
With the release of The Lego Movie in 2014, Frankfurt School’s critical theory once again finds an application in the contemporary media landscape. Its main postulates articulated by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer have never lost significance and relevance. New media products provide a convenient platform to engage in the discussion and reinforce some of the most influential critiques of the culture industries. Although with less negative dialect, the paper approaches Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s critique of mass culture in a contemporary media landscape referencing their most influential work of critical theory - Dialectic of Enlightenment. The paper carefully examines the script of The Lego Movie and producers’ interviews and relates those to the critical concepts of the culture industries. From the onset, The Lego Movie brings up a few controversial messages. First, the idea of creativity and imagination appears to be limited to the use of the brick, namely the Lego brick. Secondly, although the basic maxim of the movie is the promotion of self-identity and individuality, the development of these personal traits through the storyline is debatable. Finally, the producers’ aim to criticize American mass culture and the culture industry is dubious as much as their claim to have no intention for the movie to serve as a commercial. The paradox of the latter is poignant since the critique of mass culture is embedded in the product of the same culture — the medium of the screen — the movie. The Lego movie uses a powerful medium to convey the message of the consumer culture – the colorful brick, which is easily recognized by kids all over the world. It is arguable whether the medium intensifies the messages disseminated through the movie. A massive increase in the sales of Lego sets after the movie’s release may suggest an affirmative answer.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v15i1.6467
Tracy Moniz
This paper analyzes representations of female sexuality in the Canadian prime-time television series Bomb Girls (2012-2013), which depicts the lives of women working at a munitions factory in Toronto during the Second World War. The historical drama takes place in a period of simultaneous restraint and liberation around female gender and sexuality. This paper contends that Bomb Girls (re)constructs a narrative about female sexuality that breaks from a traditionally gendered and heteronormative story. Bomb Girls challenges dominant discourse on representations of gender in media, instead capturing the complexities around female sexual relationships and sexual orientation during the war. These threads coalesce into a narrative that paints the ‘bomb girls’ themselves as progressive symbols of female sexuality. This paper, like the series, contributes to a feminist counter-discourse focusing on the plurality of female voices and experiences and, in doing so, it pays tribute to working women on the Canadian home front during the war.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v15i1.6468
Benoît Schryer, P. Ross
Devant la disponibilité de multiples nouveaux canaux de communication, les partenaires amoureux valorisent particulièrement l’utilisation de la messagerie texte (ou textos) entre eux (Coyne et al., 2011; Pettigrew, 2009). L'usage des textos dans le cadre de relations amoureuses pose un problème intéressant eu égard aux comportements et aux attentes qui caractérisent ce type de relation. En effet, si le développement et le maintien des relations amoureuses reposent sur les interactions intimes (Andersen et al. 2006, p. 260) et la communication non-verbale qui les constituent (ibid; Frisby & Booth-Butterfield 2012, pp. 468-469), on peut se demander de quelle façon les textos – un moyen de communication a priori plus limité que la communication en face-à-face ou même le téléphone pour la transmission de signaux non verbaux – affectent les relations amoureuses. Le présent article cherche à faire la lumière sur la question à partir d'entretiens réalisés auprès de douze (12) jeunes couples amoureux. Les résultats suggèrent notamment que ces derniers utilisent les textos afin de préparer et minimiser l'incertitude qui peut caractériser leurs rencontres en face-àface.
面对多种新的沟通渠道的可用性，相爱的伴侣特别重视彼此之间使用短信(或短信)(Coyne et al.， 2011;佩蒂格鲁,2009)。在恋爱关系中使用短信提出了一个有趣的问题，涉及到这种关系的行为和期望特征。事实上，如果恋爱关系的发展和维持依赖于亲密互动(Andersen et al. 2006, p. 260)和构成它们的非语言交流(同上;Frisby & Booth-Butterfield 2012，第468-469页)，人们可能会问，短信——一种比面对面交流甚至非语言信号的电话更有限的交流方式——是如何影响爱情关系的。这篇文章试图通过对12对年轻情侣的采访来阐明这个问题。研究结果表明，他们使用短信是为了准备和减少面对面会议的不确定性。
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v15i1.6470
Gabriela Perdomo
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Pub Date : 2016-06-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v14i1.6473
Reisa Klein, Michèle Martin
This paper looks at the coverage of women’s civil labour during WWI in two magazines, Maclean’s in Canada and L’Illustration in France, supplemented with material from war museums and academic works. Our concern is media representations of the indispensible participation of these women, not as victims and passive entities in the conflict, but as individuals who have significantly contributed to the war effort. We contend that the magazines’ content did not reflect the magnitude of women’s civil labour during WWI and the importance they had not only in sustaining the war effort, maintaining a general level of production that would allow their countries to remain significantly involved in the war, but also in their contribution to the modernisation of society.
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Pub Date : 2016-06-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v14i1.6472
May Friedman
This analysis aims to review the means by which an imagined Canadianness is described through the responses of American comedians to late Toronto mayor Rob Ford on comedy shows which aired between May 2013 and May 2014. The Rob Ford story, as taken up in late night U.S. comedy, both maintains and transgresses stereotypes about Canada and Canadians. Likewise, an examination of the constructed Ford (and the constructed Canada which simultaneously emerges) in late night comedy focuses on appropriate behaviours and expectations, especially with respect to the governance of body and mind.
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Pub Date : 2016-06-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v14i1.6471
Marc W. Edge
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Pub Date : 2016-06-01DOI: 10.18192/cjmsrcem.v14i1.6474
Marc W. Edge
The 2014 purchase by Canada’s largest newspaper chain of its second-largest chain increased concentration of newspaper ownership considerably. The deal’s 2015 approval by the Competition Bureau, some scholars noted, provoked little outcry over the latest federal regulatory failure to stop the increased concentration level. A series of inquiries, from the 1981 report of the Royal Commission on Newspapers to Senate reports in 1970 and 2006, all identified increased concentration of newspaper ownership as a problem and proposed measures to solve it. Formed in the 1980s, the Competition Bureau took action against a local newspaper monopoly in Vancouver in the early 1990s but has been ineffective since. This study charts the historical progress of newspaper ownership concentration in Canada and calculates that Postmedia now publishes 37.6 percent of Canadian paid daily newspaper circulation and owns fifteen of the twenty-two largest Englishlanguage dailies. That includes 75.4 percent in the three westernmost provinces, where Postmedia owns eight of the nine largest dailies. Possible explanations for a lack of outcry include the company’s use of the “death of newspapers” meme as justification and the fact the deal’s effect was felt mostly in Western Canada, far from the corridors of power.
2014年，加拿大最大的报纸连锁店收购了其第二大连锁店，大大提高了报纸所有权的集中度。一些学者指出，2015年美国竞争局(Competition Bureau)批准了这笔交易，但这一次联邦监管机构未能阻止集中度的上升，几乎没有引发强烈抗议。从1981年皇家报业委员会(Royal Commission on Newspapers)的报告，到1970年和2006年参议院的报告，一系列调查都指出，报纸所有权日益集中是一个问题，并提出了解决这个问题的措施。成立于上世纪80年代的竞争局在上世纪90年代初对温哥华一家地方报纸的垄断采取了行动，但自那以后就一直无效。本研究绘制了加拿大报纸所有权集中的历史进程图，并计算出Postmedia现在出版了37.6%的加拿大付费日报发行量，并拥有22家最大的英语日报中的15家。其中，最西部的三个省份占了75.4%，在这三个省份，九家最大的日报中，邮政传媒拥有八家。没有引起强烈抗议的可能解释包括，该公司用“报纸的死亡”作为理由，以及该交易的影响主要在加拿大西部感受到，远离权力走廊。
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