Bart Beaty is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He has written and published extensively on cultural studies and issues in communication theory. Derek Briton is Associate Director of Athabasca University's Centre for Integrated Studies. His research focuses on the psychoanalysis of society and culture, particularly the implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for teaching and learning. Gloria Filax teaches and coordinates the Equality/Social Justice stream in the MAIS program at Athabasca University. Her research interests include gender/sexuality studies, processes of racialization, disability studies, and other forms of normalization. Rebecca Sullivan is an associate professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. She specializes in feminist film and media studies.

• AcknowledgementsForeword / David TarasIntroductionContexts of Popular Culture / Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan1 A Future for Media Studies: Cultural Labour, Cultural Relations, Cultural Politics / Toby Miller2 Log On, Goof Off, and Look Up: Facebook and the Rhythms of Canadian Internet Use / Ira Wagman3 Hawkers and Public Space: Free Commuter Newspapers in Canada / Will Straw4 Walking a Tightrope: The Global Cultural Economy of Canadian Television / Serra Tinic5 Pedagogy of Popular Culture: "Doing" Canadian Popular Culture / Gloria Filax6 Popular Genres in Quebec Cinema: The Strange Case of Horror in Film and Television / André Loiselle7 Cosmopolitans and Hosers: Notes on Recent Developments in English-Canadian Cinema / Zoë Druick8 From Genre to Genre: Image Transactions in Contemporary Canadian Art / Johanne Sloan9 Controlling the Popular: Canadian Memory Institutions and Popular Culture / Frits Pannekoek, Mary Hemmings, and Helen Clarke10 After the Spirit Sang: Aboriginal Canadians and Museum Policy in the New Millennium / Heather Devine11 Producing the Canadian Female Athlete: Negotiating the Popular Logics of Sport and Citizenship / Michelle Helstein12 Gothic Night in Canada: Global Hockey Realities and Ghostly National Imaginings / Patricia Hughes-Fuller13 Vernacular Folk Song on Canadian Radio: Recovered, Constructed, and Suppressed Identities / E. David Gregory14 The Virtual Expanses of Canadian Popular Culture /Derek BritonAbout the ContributorsIndex