Canadian Television

Edited by Marian Bredin, Scott Henderson, and Sarah A. Matheson
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Film & Media
Series: Film and Media Studies

Canadian Television: Text and Context explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. Each chapter connects arguments ...

Fields in Motion

Edited by Dena Davida
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Ethnography

Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the Worlds of Dance examines the deeper meanings and resonances of artistic dance in contemporary culture.

The book comprises four sections: methods and methodologies, ...

Making It Like a Man

Edited by Christine Ramsay
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Performing Arts, Social Science, Gender Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice is a collection of essays on the practice of masculinities in Canadian arts and cultures, where to “make it like a man” is to participate in the cul ...

Gender, Health, and Popular Culture

Edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies

Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal ...

Ecologies of Affect

Edited by Tonya K. Davidson, Ondine Park, and Rob Shields
Subjects: Ethnography, Cultural Studies, Social Science, Urban Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, ...

Imagining Resistance

Edited by J. Keri Cronin & Kirsty Robertson
Subjects: Art, Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history ...

Burdens of Proof

By Susanna Egan
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Cultural Studies
Series: Life Writing

Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into ...

Feeling Canadian

By Marusya Bociurkiw
Subjects: Political Science, Cultural Studies, Film & Media
Series: Film and Media Studies

“My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, pro ...

Digital Diversity

Edited by E. Dianne Looker & Ted D. Naylor
Subjects: Education, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies

Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology is about youth, schools, and the use of technology. Youth are instrumental in finding novel ways to access and use technology. They are directly ...

Covering Niagara

Edited by Joan Nicks & Barry Keith Grant
Subjects: Sports & Recreation, Travel, Cultural Studies, Law
Series: Cultural Studies

Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture closely examines some of the myriad forms of popular culture in the Niagara region of Canada. Essays consider common assumptions and definitions of what ...