Covering Niagara

``Covering Niagara will finally bust loose a secret that's been all too well concealed from all too many people: because of its unique geographical position, as a kind of radar dish picking up influences from all compass points, both sides of the border and the myriad backgrounds of the millions who have settled there, it's a pop cultural torrent.'' -- Geoff Pevere, broadcaster, author, critic, and former Niagara resident -- 201005
``Covering Niagara is an original contribution, not only to our understanding of this particular Canadian 'region' but to regional cultural studies in Canada generally. It clearly grows out of ongoing, collaborative research activity involving many of the contributors and, as such, it shows what sustained, regionally focused research can do.'' -- William Straw, professor of Communications at McGill University and co-editor ofCirculation and the City: Essays on Urban Culture (2010). -- 201005
``Covering Niagara, an original study of local popular culture in the Golden Horseshoe area, uses a variety of critical and historical perspectives and a wide range of methodologies, including cultural studies, textual analysis, archival research, and participant interviews, to map out this borderlands green belt / fruit belt / rust belt that also calls itself home to a World Biosphere site (the Escarpment), a natural wonder (Niagara Falls), and a tourist mecca (Clifton Hill). The collection as a whole contains fifteen chapters, divided into five broad sections.'' -- Linda Revie -- University of Toronto Quarterly, Volume 81, number 3, Summer 2012, 201212