Technonatures

Edited by Chris Wilbert & Damian F. White
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Environmentalism and social sciences appear to be in a period of disorientation and perhaps transition. In this innovative collection, leading international thinkers explore the notion that one explanation ...

Figuring Redemption

By Tila L. Kellman
Subjects: Cultural Studies

Can visual art help redeem one’s sense of self, damaged by technological society?
Michael Snow’s work is often described as self-referential, meaning that it “talks” about the relationships between ...

Troubling Tricksters

Edited by Deanna Reder & Linda M. Morra
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints ...

Rites of Way

Edited by Mark Kingwell & Patrick Turmel
Subjects: Social Science, Urban Studies, Art, Cultural Studies
Series: Canadian Commentaries

There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; ...

Toronto on Film

By Brenda Longfellow, Geoff Pevere, Justin D. Edwards, Matthew Hays, Piers Handling, Steve Gravestock, and Wyndham Wise
Subjects: Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Cinematheque Ontario Monographs

No Canadian city has been exposed, cinematically speaking, more often than Toronto. Published to coincide with the city’s 175th birthday, Toronto on Film examines the way the city has been presented ...

Depicting Canada’s Children

Edited by Loren Lerner
Subjects: Art, Cultural Studies, Social Science, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, ...

He Was Some Kind of a Man

By Roderick McGillis
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Film and Media Studies

He Was Some Kind of a Man: Masculinities in the B Western explores the construction and representation of masculinity in low-budget western movies made from the 1930s to the early 1950s. These films contained ...

Programming Reality

Edited by Aspa Kotsopoulos & Zoë Druick
Subjects: Film & Media, Cultural Studies
Series: Film and Media Studies

Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television, the first anthology dedicated to analyses of Canadian television content, is a collection of original, interdisciplinary articles, combining ...

Animal Subjects

Edited by Jodey Castricano
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Cultural Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory ...

Canadian Cultural Exchange / Échanges culturels au Canada

Edited by Lucien Pelletier & Norman Cheadle
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

The essays in Canadian Cultural Exchange / ÃƒÂ‰changes culturels au Canada provide a nuanced view of Canadian transcultural experience. Rather than considering Canada as a bicultural dichotomy of ...