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  • Comrades and Critics

    Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada

    by Candida Rifkind ...
    While Canadian historians have studied socialism in the 1930s, and although there have been many studies of American and British literary leftists from this period, Comrades and Critics is the first full-length study of Canada's 1930s literary left. Challenging dominant perceptions that this decade was a lull between the more celebrated modernist enterprises of the 1920s and 1940s, Candida Rifkind ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Graphic Refuge

    Visuality and Mobility in Refugee Comics

    by Dominic Davies, Candida Rifkind ...
    Graphic Refuge** is the first in-depth study of comics about refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, and detainees by artists from the Global North and South. Co-written by two leading scholars of nonfiction comics, the book explores graphic narratives about a range of refugee experiences, from war, displacement, and perilous sea crossings to detention camps, resettlement schemes, and second ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Canadian Graphic

    Picturing Life Narratives

    Edited by Candida Rifkind, Linda Warley ...
    Series Book 57 - Life Writing
    Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to show how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic books based on real-life experiences. The ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada

    by Sonja Boon, Laurie McNeill, Julie Rak, Candida Rifkind ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Canadian Literature
    The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada explores the exciting world of nonfiction writing about the self, designed to give teachers and students the tools they need to study both canonical and lesser-known works. The volume introduces important texts and contexts for interpreting life narratives, demonstrates the conceptual tools necessary to understand what life narratives are and ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Documenting Trauma in Comics

    Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage

    Edited by Dominic Davies, Candida Rifkind ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their relationships with traumatic events? And how does comics’ documentation of traumatic pasts operate across ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Killer Images

    Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence

    Edited by Joram ten Brink, Joshua Oppenheimer ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Media Reception Studies

    by Janet Staiger ...
    A broad survey on how audiences make meaning out of mass mediaMedia Reception Studies broadly surveys the past century of scholarship on the ways in which audiences make meaning out of mass media. It synthesizes in plain language social scientific, linguistic, and cultural studies approaches to film and television as communication media.Janet Staiger traverses a broad terrain, covering the Chicago ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Postmodern Literature and Race

    Edited by Len Platt, Sara Upstone ...
    Postmodernism Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Mediating Mobility

    Visual Anthropology in the Age of Migration

    by Steffen Köhn ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    Images have become an integral part of the political regulation of migration: they help produce categories of legality versus illegality, foster stereotypes, and mobilize political convictions. Yet how are we to understand the relationship between these images and the political in the discourse surrounding migration? How can we, as anthropologists, migration scholars, or documentary filmmakers ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Cinema Studies

    The Key Concepts

    by Susan Hayward ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Now in its sixth edition, this essential guide for students provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world cinemas, theories and production terms.This fully revised and updated book includes new topical entries that explore areas such as film and the environmental crisis; streaming and new audience consumption; diversity and intersectionality; questions ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

    Edited by Eva-Marie Kröller ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics. For this edition several chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of fiction, drama and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD