Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS NORMAN R. BALL is a historian of technology and Director of the Centre for Society, Technology and Values, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo . He is author of The Canadian Niagara Power Company Story (2005) and is writing a history of the Niagara Parks Commission, to mark the occasion of its 125th anniversary in 2010. His wide work experience includes archivist, museum curator, and engineering magazine columnist. NICK BAXTER-MOORE is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication , Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. His current research interests include the touring strategies of the Trans Siberian Orchestra, the concert-going habits of Bruce Springsteen fans, and the history of Crystal Beach amusement park. MARIAN BREDIN is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication , Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. Her research interests include Aboriginal and indigenous media, communications policy and cultural politics, and Canadian television. She is co-editor of two forthcoming collections: Indigenous Screen Cultures and Canadian Television: Text and Context. ROSLYN COSTANZO resides in Toronto and is active in the contemporary art scene and the Niagara Artists Centre (NAC), located in downtown St. Catharines . Her research interests are contemporary art and the emergence of artist-run culture in Canada between 1970 and 1980. 353 354 Contributors TERRANCE COX is a writer of poems and non-fiction and a “general practitioner ” in the Humanities at Brock University. His published collections include a “spoken word with music” CD, Local Scores (2000), the prize-winning book Radio & Other Miracles (2001), and a second CD, Simultaneous Translation (2005). HUGH GAYLER is Professor of Geography at Brock University. He specializes in urban geography and has published on various aspects of suburbanization and urban expansion into areas of high resource value. GREG GILLESPIE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication , Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. His research focuses on Scottish studies, sport studies, and game studies, and he is author of Hunting for Empire: Narratives of Sport in Rupert’s Land, 1840–1870 (2008). He is from the town of Grimsby in the Niagara Region. BARRY KEITH GRANT is Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University and co-editor of this volume. The author or editor of over a dozen books, his work has been widely published in journals and anthologies. He is the editor of film books for Wayne State University Press and Blackwell Publishing. RUSSELL JOHNSTON is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication , Popular Culture and Film at Brock University. His research on Canadian media history includes Selling Themselves: The Emergence of Canadian Advertising (2001), as well as articles in magazines, journals, and edited collections. FIONA LUCAS, whose interest in Canadian culinary history began in 1987, is co-founder of the Culinary Historians of Ontario. Her first book, Hearth and Home: Women and the Art of Open Hearth Cooking, won silver in the 2007 Canadian Culinary Book Awards. PHILLIP GORDON MACKINTOSH is Associate Professor of Geography at Brock University. His SSHRC-funded research of historical-cultural and social geographies of class, gender, and race includes bourgeois, masculine performativity in nineteenth-century Masonic lodges, the domestic embourgeoisment of public space, and racialized park planning in Edwardian Toronto. DAN MALLECK is Associate Professor in Community Health Sciences at Brock University and editor-in-chief of Social History of Alcohol and Drugs: An Interdisciplinary Journal. His research focus is the history of the regulation of alcohol and drugs, currently liquor regulation in public places in Ontario from 1927 to 1944. PAUL S. MOORE is Associate Professor of Sociology, and in the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture at Ryerson University. He is the author of Now Playing: Early Moviegoing and the Regulation of Fun (2008) and several articles on the history of movie exhibition and promotion in Canada. With Sandra Gabriele, he is currently researching a history of the weekend newspaper in North America. JOAN NICKS is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University and is co-editor of this volume . Her writing on film and media has appeared in various edited anthologies and journals. She and colleague Jeannette Sloniowski have been long-time research collaborators and are co-editors of Slippery Pastimes: Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture (2002). GEOFF PEVERE is a long-time broadcaster and film critic. He is co-author, with Greig Dymond, of Mondo Canuck: A Canadian Pop Culture...