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  • LGBTQ Film Festivals

    Curating Queerness

    Series series Film Culture in Transition
    While scholars have theorized major film festivals, they have ignored smaller, ephemeral, events. In taking seriously minor European and North-American LGBTQ festivals which often only exist as traces within archival collections, this book revisits festival studies' methodological and theoretical apparatuses. As the first 'critique' of festival studies from within, LGBTQ Film Festivals argues that ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is an open access book. This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can’t happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution (most often in the forms of digital releases), the festival format ... Read more

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    History, Theory, Method, Practice

    The last decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in film festivals, with the field growing to a position of prominence within the space of a few short years. Film Festivals: History, Theory, Method, Practice represents a major addition to the literature on this topic, offering an authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the area. With a combination of chapters specifically examining ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to World Cinema

    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas of the world. Each of the forty chapters provides a survey of a topic, explaining why the issue or area is important, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Represent!

    Studies of Diversity and Popular Media Culture

    Represent! offers insights into identity and sociocultural diversity in popular media culture, from Game of Thrones to hip hop. It addresses how popular media texts and practices deal with diversity in Western societies, how this evolved historically, and how it can be critically studied. Many people have an understanding of what 'woke' means, but are not familiar with the historical background of ... Read more

    $21.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Media and Participation

    A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

    Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies ... Read more

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  • In a Queer Country

    Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context

    by Terry Goldie ...
    A groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada. Versed in queer social history as well as leading-edge gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, In a Queer Country confronts queer culture from various perspectives relevant to international audiences. Topics range from the politics of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life in Media

    A Global Introduction to Media Studies

    by Mark Deuze ...
    A new way to teach media studies that centers students’ lived experiences and diverse perspectives from around the world.From the intimate to the mundane, most aspects of our lives—how we learn, love, work, and play—take place in media. Taking an expansive, global perspective, this introductory textbook covers what it means to live in, rather than with, media. Mark Deuze focuses on the lived ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Pink-Slipped

    What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?

    by Jane M Gaines ...
    Series series Women’s Media History Now!
    Women held more positions of power in the silent film era than at any other time in American motion picture history. Marion Leonard broke from acting to cofound a feature film company. Gene Gauntier, the face of Kalem Films, also wrote the first script of Ben-Hur. Helen Holmes choreographed her own breathtaking on-camera stunt work. Yet they and the other pioneering filmmaking women vanished from ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Radical Gestures

    by Jayne Wark ...
    Performance art was finally recognized as an art form in its own right in the 1970s. In Radical Gestures Jayne Wark situates feminist performance art in Canada and the United States in the social context of the feminist movement and avant-garde art from the 1970s to 2000. She shows that artists drew from feminist politics to create works that after a long period of modernist aesthetic detachment ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • We Interrupt This Program

    Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture

    We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics in the realms of art, film, television, and journalism to rewrite Canada’s national narratives from Indigenous perspectives. Miranda Brady and John Kelly showcase the diversity of these interventions by offering personal accounts and reflections on key moments – witnessing survivor testimonies at the Truth ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Art as Social Action

    An Introduction to the Principles and Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art

    "Art as Social Action . . . is an essential guide to deepening social art practices and teaching them to students." —Laura Raicovich, president and executive director, Queens MuseumArt as Social Action is both a general introduction to and an illustrated, practical textbook for the field of social practice, an art medium that has been gaining popularity in the public sphere. With content arranged ... Read more

    $18.99 USD