Mary Climbs In
The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans
- Copyright year: 2023
Screening Nature and Nation
The Environmental Documentaries of the National Film Board, 1939-1974
- Copyright year: 2022
More Voice-Over
Colin Campbell Writings
- Copyright year: 2021
Being a Ballerina
The Power and Perfection of a Dancing Life
- Copyright year: 2021
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.
- Copyright year: 2021
Contact!Unload
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.
- Copyright year: 2019
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.
- Copyright year: 2019
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.
- Copyright year: 2017
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.
- Copyright year: 2018
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.
- Copyright year: 2014
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.
- Copyright year: 2015
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.
- Copyright year: 2014
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.
- Copyright year: 2014
Film and the City
The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema
- Copyright year: 2013
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.
- Copyright year: 2012
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.
- Copyright year: 2012
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.
- Copyright year: 2010
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.
- Copyright year: 2009
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.
- Copyright year: 2008
Cinematic Howling
Women's Films, Women's Film Theories
- Copyright year: 2007
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.
- Copyright year: 2005
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."
- Copyright year: 2002
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.
- Copyright year: 1997
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.
- Copyright year: 1986