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  • The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders

    Multilingualism in Northern European Literature

    Edited by Heidi Grönstrand, Markus Huss, Ralf Kauranen ...
    This collection showcases a multivalent approach to the study of literary multilingualism, embodied in contemporary Nordic literature. While previous approaches to literary multilingualism have tended to take a textual or authorship focus, this book advocates for a theoretical perspective which reflects the multiplicity of languages in use in contemporary literature emerging from increased ... Read more

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  • Tove Jansson

    Literature and Art

    Edited by Dr Jussi Ojajärvi, Dr Ralf Kauranen, Professor Andrew Nestingen, Dr, Prof Kasimir Sandbacka, Dr Kukku Melkas ...
    A deep-dive into the work of Tove Jansson (1914–2001), the Finland-Swedish author and visual artist who created The Moomins, this book considers her novels, short stories, picturebooks, comics, illustrations and paintings to provide a comprehensive overview of her genre and form defying career.With work ranging from the ironic to melancholy, playful to wise and reaching from the heights and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Comics and Migration

    Representation and Other Practices

    Edited by Ralf Kauranen, Olli Löytty, Aura Nikkilä, Anna Vuorinne ...
    Series series Global Perspectives in Comics Studies
    Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on both how comics represent migration and what applied uses comics have in relation to migration. The volume examines both individual works of comic art and examples of practical applications of comics from across the world.Comics are well-suited to create understanding, highlight ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • Aesthetic Journalism

    How to Inform Without Informing

    by Alfredo Cramerotti ...
    As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Europe and Love in Cinema

    Edited by Luisa Passerini, Jo Labanyi, Karen Diehl ...
    Europe and Love in Cinema explores the relationship between love and Europeanness in a wide range of films from the 1920s to the present. A critical look at the manner in which love—in its broadest sense—is portrayed in cinema from across Europe and the United States, this volume exposes constructed notions of "Europeanness" that both set Europe apart and define some parts of it as more "European" ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Documentary Film

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Patricia Aufderheide ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc Jacquet's heart-tugging wildlife epic March of the Penguins. In this concise, crisply written guide, Patricia Aufderheide takes readers along the diverse ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Beyond Pippi Longstocking

    Intermedial and International Approaches to Astrid Lindgren's Work

    Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Astrid Surmatz ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Astrid Lindgren, author of the famed Pippi Longstocking novels, is perhaps one of the most significant children's authors of the last half of the twentieth century. In this collection contributors consider films, music, and picturebooks relating to Lindgren, in addition to the author's reception internationally. Touching on everything from the Astrid Lindgren theme park at Vimmerby, Sweden to the ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Frontiers of Screen History

    Imagining European Borders in Cinema, 1945–2010

    by Bruce Johnson, Kari Kallioniemi ...
    Frontiers of Screen History provides an insightful exploration into the depiction and imagination of European borders in cinema after the Second World War. While films have explored national and political borders, they have also attempted to identify, challenge and imagine frontiers of another kind: social, ethnic, religious and gendered. The book investigates all these perspectives. Its unique ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Cinema of Me

    The Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary

    Edited by Alisa Lebow ...
    Series series Nonfictions
    When a filmmaker makes a film with herself as a subject, she is already divided as both the subject matter of the film and the subject making the film. The two senses of the word are immediately in play – the matter and the maker—thus the two ways of being subjectified as both subject and object. Subjectivity finds its filmic expression, not surprisingly, in very personal ways, yet it is ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Children's Literature in Translation

    Challenges and Strategies

    by Jan Van Coillie, Walter P. Verschueren ...
    Children's classics from Alice in Wonderland to the works of Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl, J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman are now generally recognized as literary achievements that from a translator's point of view are no less demanding than 'serious' (adult) literature. This volume attempts to explore the various challenges posed by the translation of children's literature and at the same time ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Film Studies

    by Annette Kuhn, Guy Westwell ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    A Dictionary of Film Studies covers all aspects of its discipline as it is currently taught at undergraduate level. Offering exhaustive and authoritative coverage, this A-Z is written by experts in the field, and covers terms, concepts, debates, and movements in film theory and criticism; national, international, and transnational cinemas; film history, movements, and genres; film industry ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Essays on the Essay Film

    Edited by Nora M. Alter, Timothy Corrigan ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    The essay—with its emphasis on the provisional and explorative rather than on definitive statements—has evolved from its literary beginnings and is now found in all mediums, including film. Today, the essay film is, arguably, one of the most widely acclaimed and critically discussed forms of filmmaking around the world, with practitioners such as Chris Marker, Hito Steyerl, Errol Morris, Trinh T. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD