Indigenous Ecocinema
Decolonizing Media Environments
Mary Climbs In
The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans
Screening Nature and Nation
The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974
More Voice-Over
Colin Campbell Writings
Being a Ballerina
The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life
Women, Film, and Law
Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration
Women, Film, and Law questions the criminalization of women through an engaging exploration of the women-in-prison film genre.
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Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-Based Theatre
This important book explores an arts-based therapeutic approach to mental health care, bringing to light the journeys of contemporary military veterans as they adjust to civilian life post-deployment.
Inside Killjoy’s Kastle
Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings
Exploring the making and experience of a lesbian feminist haunted house, this book reframes and reclaims queer feminist histories with humour, provocation, and theoretical sophistication.
Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music
Discovering Musical Patterns by Interpreting Artifical Neural Networks
Intended to introduce readers to the use of artificial neural networks in the study of music, this volume contains numerous case studies and research findings that address problems related to identifying scales, keys, classifying musical chords, and learning jazz chord progressions. A detailed analysis of networks is provided for each case study which together demonstrate that focusing on the internal structure of trained networks could yield important contributions to the field of music cognition.
Going Public
The Art of Participatory Practice
Going Public is a conversation among socially engaged practitioners in theatre, documentary media, the visual and multimedia arts, and oral history that explores how and with whom we collaborate, and why.
Familiar and Foreign
Identity in Iranian Film and Literature
In Familiar and Foreign, Mannani and Thompson set out to explore the tensions surrounding the ongoing formulation of Iranian identity by bringing together essays on poetry, novels, memoir, and films.
Butoh Dance Training
Secrets of Japanese Dance through the Alishina Method
This book is a complete guide to the Alishina Method which draws on classical and avant-garde Japanese dance traditions to offer a systemized approach to Butoh dance training. It provides practical instruction and fully illustrated exercises, including instruction on basic body training and exercises for cultivating Qi and refining the senses.
Staging Corruption
Chinese Television and Politics
A study of the television dramas about government corruption that became hugely popular in the mid-1990s and their reflection of China’s post-Socialist anxieties.
Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China
Communities and Cultural Production
Leading international scholars examine the production of culture during China’s rise to global superpower in the last quarter of a century.
Mudras of India
A Comprehensive Guide to the Hand Gestures of Yoga and Indian Dance
For the first time, the elaborate system of mudras, hand gestures used in yoga and Indian dance, has been organized into a comprehensive, fully indexed, and beautifully illustrated format.
Reel Time
Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986
Reel Time depicts how the industry shaped the development of the Canadian Prairie West and propelled the region into the modern era.
Dreaming in Canadian
South Asian Youth, Bollywood, and Belonging
Dreaming in Canadian explores the connections between the media and identity formation among young Canadians of South Asian origin.
Nightwood Theatre
A Woman’s Work Is Always Done
Scott explores the history of Nightwood Theatre, the longest-running and most influential women's theatre company in Canada, a provider of opportunities for women theatre artists.
Hot Thespian Action!
Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse
This collection commemorates Walterdale’s 50th anniversary and highlights the social and artistic significance of amateur theatre practice in Canada by drawing together significant plays by acclaimed and emerging Canadian playwrights, detailed introductions, and archival production photographs.
Reclaiming Adat
Contemporary Malaysian Film and Literature
Weaves a wealth of cultural theory into a rare analysis of Malay cinema and the work of new Malaysian anglophone writers.
Hollywood North
The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia
This timely book recounts the story of British Columbia's rapid rise from relative obscurity in the film world to its current status as "Hollywood North."
Chinese Opera
Images and Stories
This book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country.
The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry
A Scholarly Edition of Lowry's 'Tender is the Night'.
This filmscript of Tender is the Night, which Malcolm Lowry co-wrote in 1949-50, is less an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel than an extension of Lowry's own fiction.
Hymns and the Christian Myth
In Hymns and the Christian Myth, Lionel Adey demonstrates that over the centuries shifts emphasizing particular elements of the Christian faith accord with the interests and concerns of the times in which the hymns were composed.