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Expo 67 and Its WorldStaging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization |
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Reimagining Expo 67 as a privileged space for the transformative representation of nations within the emerging global village.
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 St 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.
Because it was held where and when it was - on a man-made archipelago in the St 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.
Details
456 Pages, 6.5 x 9.5
53 photos, 3 tables, colour insert
ISBN 9780228011002
June 2022
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
Craig Moyes is senior lecturer in French and francophone studies and director of the Quebec and French Canada Research Network at King’s College London.
Steven Palmer is professor of history at the University of Windsor.
Steven Palmer is professor of history at the University of Windsor.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization 3
Craig Moyes and Steven Palmer
1 Expo 67 and Its (Laurentian) World 33
Craig Moyes
2 Two Universal Endings: Architecture and Cinema at the New York and Montreal World’s Fairs 76
Heesok Chang
3 “For We Have Waited a Hundred Thousand Years”: The Indians of Canada Pavilion and Indigenous Curatorial Practices 115
Linda Grussani and Ruth B. Phillips
4 Our Two Masks: Canadian Colonial Humanism and Indigenous Representation at Montreal’s World Exhibition 150
Romney Copeman
5 The First Postcolonial World Exhibition: Revolutionary Cuba and the Black Atlantic at Expo 67 178
Steven Palmer
6 Innovation and the Prospect of the Post-national in the Architecture of Expo 67 213
Peter Scriver
7 Moving Image: Commissioned Quebec Cinema “à l’heure de l’Expo” 237
Caroline Martel
8 Here, There, and Everywhere: Youth Revolt in Quebec and around the World 270
Jean-Philippe Warren
9 Glass/Screen, or Dialectics at a (Momentary) Standstill: Marcelle Ferron’s Windows at the International Trade Centre/Expo Club 298
Bruno Victor Andrus and Craig Moyes
10 Staging Modern Medicine in Montreal: Anatomy of an Avant-Garde Pavilion 339
Steven Palmer
11 The New Brutalism and Design beyond Understanding at Expo 67 368
Joy Knoblauch
12 Secret Agents at Expo: The Case of Kommissar X 383
Will Straw
13 Earth, River, (Is)Land: The Foundations and Re-foundations of Expo 67 396
Bill Marshall
Epilogue: “A Legend for Generations to Come”: Expo 67 in the Historical Memory of Contemporary Québécois 413
Jocelyn Létourneau
Appendix: Notes on Expo 67 Visitor Data 425
Tables and Figures 429
Contributors 435
Index 437
Introduction: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization 3
Craig Moyes and Steven Palmer
1 Expo 67 and Its (Laurentian) World 33
Craig Moyes
2 Two Universal Endings: Architecture and Cinema at the New York and Montreal World’s Fairs 76
Heesok Chang
3 “For We Have Waited a Hundred Thousand Years”: The Indians of Canada Pavilion and Indigenous Curatorial Practices 115
Linda Grussani and Ruth B. Phillips
4 Our Two Masks: Canadian Colonial Humanism and Indigenous Representation at Montreal’s World Exhibition 150
Romney Copeman
5 The First Postcolonial World Exhibition: Revolutionary Cuba and the Black Atlantic at Expo 67 178
Steven Palmer
6 Innovation and the Prospect of the Post-national in the Architecture of Expo 67 213
Peter Scriver
7 Moving Image: Commissioned Quebec Cinema “à l’heure de l’Expo” 237
Caroline Martel
8 Here, There, and Everywhere: Youth Revolt in Quebec and around the World 270
Jean-Philippe Warren
9 Glass/Screen, or Dialectics at a (Momentary) Standstill: Marcelle Ferron’s Windows at the International Trade Centre/Expo Club 298
Bruno Victor Andrus and Craig Moyes
10 Staging Modern Medicine in Montreal: Anatomy of an Avant-Garde Pavilion 339
Steven Palmer
11 The New Brutalism and Design beyond Understanding at Expo 67 368
Joy Knoblauch
12 Secret Agents at Expo: The Case of Kommissar X 383
Will Straw
13 Earth, River, (Is)Land: The Foundations and Re-foundations of Expo 67 396
Bill Marshall
Epilogue: “A Legend for Generations to Come”: Expo 67 in the Historical Memory of Contemporary Québécois 413
Jocelyn Létourneau
Appendix: Notes on Expo 67 Visitor Data 425
Tables and Figures 429
Contributors 435
Index 437
