“A City of Sin No More”
Sanitizing Montreal in Print Culture, 1964–71
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20494153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Will Straw (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Pages | 137-151 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Canadian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1180-3991 • E-ISSN: 1923-5291 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/ijcs.48.137 |
| OpenAlex | W2090003203 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
It is well known that periodicals of low esteem, both Canadian and non-Canadian, regularly covered Montreal during the immediate post–Second World War period in ways that emphasized the city’s allegedly corrupt and vice-ridden character. In the 1960s, this discourse shifted, as periodicals of all levels of prestige came to offer more appealing images of Montreal’s cosmopolitanism and quality attractions. Magazines aimed at tourists emphasized Montreal’s cosmopolitanism and modernity, highlighting the availability of up-to-date consumer goods influenced by European style and the technological marvels being constructed for the 1967 World’s Fair, Expo ’67. Guides to entertainment in Montreal offered inventories of sophisticated, “European” dining experiences and chic nightlife venues. Through an examination of a variety of periodicals aimed at visitors to Montreal or inhabitants of the city anxious to discover its new attractions, this article traces Montreal’s reinvention of itself as a cosmopolitan, forward-looking metropolis
Advertising · Art · Business · Consumer Culture · Cosmopolitanism · Entertainment · Media studies · Modernity · Nightlife · Political science · Politics · Prestige · Sociology · Visual arts · Canadian Identity and History · Law · Literature and Culture Studies · Travel Writing and Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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