Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Staging the Nation in the Crucible of Globalization 3
5. Expo 67 and Its (Laurentian) World 33
6. Two Universal Endings: Architecture and Cinema at the New York and Montreal World's Fairs 75
7. “For We Have Waited a Hundred Thousand Years”: The Indians of Canada Pavilion and Indigenous Curatorial Practices 115
8. Our Two Masks: Canadian Colonial Humanism and Indigenous Representation at Montreal's World Exhibition 150
9. The First Postcolonial World Exhibition: Revolutionary Cuba and the Black Atlantic at Expo 67 178
10. Innovation and the Prospect of the Post-national in the Architecture of Expo 67 213
11. Moving Image: Commissioned Quebec Cinema “à l'heure de l'Expo” 237
12. Here, There, and Everywhere: Youth Revolt in Quebec and around the World 270
13. Glass/Screen, or Dialectics at a (Momentary) Standstill: Marcelle Ferron's Windows at the International Trade Centre/Expo Club 298
14. Staging Modern Medicine in Montreal: Anatomy of an Avant-Garde Pavilion 339
15. The New Brutalism and Design beyond Understanding at Expo 67 368
16. Secret Agents at Expo: The Case of Kommissar X 383
17. Earth, River, (Is)Land: The Foundations and Re-foundations of Expo 67 396
18. Epilogue “A Legend for Generations to Come”: Expo 67 in the Historical Memory of Contemporary Québécois 413
19. Appendix: Notes on Expo 67 Visitor Data 425
20. Tables and Figures 429
21. Contributors 435
22. Index 437