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Summary:

"In 1967, Montreal hosted Man and His World/Terre des hommes. By far the most successful cultural event ever produced in Canada, it was embraced by the public at the same time as intellectuals from Marshall McLuhan to Umberto Eco hailed it as a new type of exhibition for a new global age. Because it was held where and when it was--on a man-made archipelago in the Saint Lawrence river seven years into Quebec's Quiet Revolution--Expo 67 also provided a prism through which the idea of the nation could be refracted and recast in original ways. Misunderstood by some scholars as an expensive exercise in official patriotism, while maligned by Quebec intellectuals as a crypto-federalist distraction from the real business of national independence, the fair nevertheless showcased Montreal as the de facto capital of a suddenly modern Quebec engaging with a late-modern world. Expo 67 and Its World proposes a reappraisal of the 1967 Montreal International and Universal Exhibition across a range of political, social and cultural spaces: from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples and what was then known as the third world, through the aspirations of Montreal, Quebec and Canada, to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance. A new approach to understanding Expo 67, the collection challenges assumptions about the significance of the event to Canadian, Québécois, and First Nations history."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Expo 67 and Its (Laurentian) World / Craig Moyes
• 2. Two Universal Endings: Architecture and Cinema at the New York and Montreal World's Fairs / Heesok Chang
• 3. "For We Have Waited a Hundred Thousand Years": The Indians of Canada Pavilion and Indigenous Curatorial Practices / Ruth B. Phillips
• 4. Our Two Masks: Canadian Colonial Humanism and Indigenous Representation at Montreal's World Exhibition / Romney Copeman
• 5. First Postcolonial World Exhibition: Revolutionary Cuba and the Black Atlantic at Expo 67 / Steven Palmer
• 6. Innovation and the Prospect of the Post-national in the Architecture of Expo 67 / Peter Scriver
• 7. Moving Image: Commissioned Quebec Cinema "a l'heure del'Expo" / Caroline Martel
• 8. Here, There, and Everywhere: Youth Revolt in Quebec and around the World / Jean-Philippe Warren
• 9. Glass/Screen, or Dialectics at a (Momentary) Standstill: Marcelle Ferron's Windows at the International Trade Centre/Expo Club / Craig Moyes
• 10. Staging Modern Medicine in Montreal: Anatomy of an Avant-Garde Pavilion / Steven Palmer
• 11. New Brutalism and Design beyond Understanding at Expo 67 / Joy Knoblauch
• 12. Secret Agents at Expo: The Case of Kommissar X / Will Straw
• 13. Earth, River, (Is)Land: The Foundations and Re-foundations of Expo 67 / Bill Marshall.

Contributors:

Moyes, Craig , editor

Palmer, Steven Paul , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Expo 67 and its world (Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 — ISBN 0228013313; ISBN 9780228013310)

Subjects:

Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau) (1967 : Montréal, Québec)

Exhibitions — Social aspects — Québec (Province) — Montréal

Globalization — Québec (Province) — Montréal

Expo (International Exhibitions Bureau)

Exhibition catalogs

Social aspects

Globalization

Québec

Québec — Montréal

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

T752 1967.B1 E97 2022

ISBNs:

9780228013310 (electronic bk.)
0228013313 (electronic bk.)
9780228010999 [Invalid]
0228010993 [Invalid]
9780228011002 [Invalid]
0228011000 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1287825203

Other Control Numbers:

EBC29314290 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp18011056