1st Edition

Media, Culture, and the Meanings of Hockey Constructing a Canadian Hockey World, 1896-1907

By Stacy L. Lorenz Copyright 2017
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

This volume examines the cultural meanings of high-level amateur and professional hockey in Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the author analyzes English Canadian media narratives of Stanley Cup "challenge" games and championship series between 1896 and 1907. Newspaper coverage and telegraph reconstructions of Stanley Cup challenges contributed... Read more

1. Media, Culture, and the Meanings of Hockey

2. ‘Our Victorias Victorious’: Media, Rivalry, and the 1896 Winnipeg-Montreal Stanley Cup Hockey Challenges

3. National Media Coverage and the Creation of a Canadian ‘Hockey World’: The Winnipeg-Montreal Stanley Cup Hockey Challenges, 1899–1903

4. Hockey, Violence, and Masculinity: Newspaper Coverage of the Ottawa ‘Butchers’, 1903–1906

5. ‘The Product of the Town Itself’: Community Representation and the Stanley Cup Hockey Challenges of the Kenora Thistles, 1903–1907

6. Constructing a Cultural History of Canadian Hockey

Biography

Stacy L. Lorenz is Associate Professor in Physical Education and History at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research interests include newspaper coverage of sport, media experiences of sport, sport and local and national identities, violence and masculinity, and hockey and Canadian culture.