Polite Athletics and Bourgeois Gaieties

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xiii
4. Acknowledgements xvii
5. Introduction xxi
6. Public Showings
7. Polite Athletics and Bourgeois Gaieties 3
8. A Promise Set in Stone 25
9. Niagara Falls Indian Village 45
10. Movies and Media
11. Early Movie-Going in Niagara 69
12. “Hollywoodization,” Gender, and the Local Press in the 1920s 93
13. Where is the Local in Local Radio? 119
14. Food and Drink
15. Frolics With Food 147
16. “A Little More than a Drink” 169
17. Niagara’s Emerging Wine Culture 195
18. Local Connections
19. “Kenny-Ing” 215
20. The Music Store as a Community Resource 237
21. Back to our Roots 263
22. Borderline Matters
23. Entertaining Niagara Falls, Ontario 285
24. Electricity from Niagara Falls 311
25. Weaving Local Identity 337
26. Contributors 353
27. Index 357
28. Books in the Cultural Studies Series 378