Reclaiming Canadian Bodies

Edited by Lynda Mannik & Karen McGarry
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

The central focus of Reclaiming Canadian Bodies is the relationship between visual media, the construction of Canadian national identity, and notions of embodiment. It asks how particular representations ...

Reverse Shots

Edited by Wendy Gay Pearson & Susan Knabe
Subjects: Film & Media, Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies
Series: Film and Media Studies

From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, ...

Ley Lines

Edited by H. L. Hix
Subjects: Poetry, Art, Cultural Studies

Ley lines mark alignments of sacred sites such as ridgetops and ancient megaliths and create pathways between them. This book too marks alignments and creates pathways, but its sacred sites are not monuments, ...

Found in Alberta

Edited by Robert Boschman & Mario Trono
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Environmental Humanities

Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is ...

Critical Collaborations

Edited by Smaro Kamboureli & Christl Verduyn
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical ...

Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other

Edited by David B. MacDonald & Mary-Michelle DeCoste
Subjects: Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

What is Europe? Who is European? What do Europe and European identity mean in the twenty-first century? This collection of sixteen essays seeks to answer these questions by focusing on Europe as it is ...

Canada the Good

By Marcel Martel
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Social Policy

To invest in vice can be a sound financial decision, but despite the lure of healthy profits, individuals and mutual funds have been reluctant to invest in this type of stock. After all, who would take ...

Detecting Canada

Edited by Jeannette Sloniowski & Marilyn Rose
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Film and Media Studies

The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada contains thirteen essays on many of Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, ...

Parallel Encounters

Edited by Gillian Roberts & David Stirrup
Subjects: Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

The essays collected in offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities ...

Ontario Boys

By Christopher J. Greig
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, History, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Ontario Boys explores the preoccupation with boyhood in Ontario during the immediate postwar period, 1945–1960. It argues that a traditional version of boyhood was being rejuvenated in response to a ...