Interpreting Censorship in Canada
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KLAUS PETERSEN AND ALLAN C. HUTCHINSON, EDITORS Interpreting Censorship in Canada UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto Buffalo London Contents PREFACE IX 1 Censorship! Or Is It? 3 KLAUS PETERSEN 2 Chameleon on a Changing Background: The Politics of Censorship in Canada 19 REG WHITAKER 3 Pluralism and Hate: Freedom, Censorship, and the Canadian Identity 40 SAMUEL V. LaSELVA 4 Judging Speech: An Inquiry into the Supreme Court's Theory of Signification 56 MARIANA VALVERDE 5 Beyond Censorship: An Essay on Free Speech and Law 80 JOEL BAKAN 6 The Censorship of Commercial Speech, with Special Reference to Tobacco Product Advertising 101 WILLIAM LEISS 7 Undercover Censorship: Exploring the History of the Regulation of Publica- tions in Canada 129 BRUCE RYDER vi Contents 8 Censorship in Schools: Orthodoxy, Diversity, and Cultural Coherence 157 SHAHEEN SHARIFF AND MICHAEL MANLEY-CASIMIR 9 Walking the Tightrope: Management of Censorship Attempts in Canadian Libraries 182 ANN CURRY 10 The Ethos of Censorship in English-Canadian Literature: An Ontoporno- sophical Approach 199 LORRAINE WEIR 11 'Pornography Disguised as Art': Some Recent Episodes concerning Censorship and the Visual Arts in Canada 221 SCOTT WATSON 12 Canada, Censorship, and the Internet 241 DONALD F. THEALL 13 The Social Psychology of Censorship 268 JAMES M. OLSON AND VICTORIA M. ESSES 14 The Muted Bugle: Self-Censorship and the Press 290 RANDAL MARLIN 15 Censorship by Inadvertence? Selectivity in the Production of TV News 318 LYDIA MILJAN AND BARRY COOPER 16 Selective Marginalization of Aboriginal Voices: Censorship in Public Performance 334 ALLAN McDOUGALL AND LISA PHILIPS VALENTINE 17 The Ironies of Academic Freedom 351 PAUL AXELROD 18 The Market and Professional Censorship of Canadian School Textbooks 367 ROWLAND LORIMER Contents vii 19 Sense and Censorship: Towards a Different Account of Expressive Freedom 386 ALLAN C. HUTCHINSON APPENDIX: FILM CENSORSHIP 403 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 413 CONTRIBUTORS 417 INDEX 423.